12 Most Inspiring Fruit Trees Espaliers

While changing your lanscape into edible garden think about formed fruit trees that are hand formed and shaped to fit even small gardens.

Have a look at these 14 inspiring  photos hand pick by myself. Let me know if you enjoy it...  

Recommended further reading Espalier Fruit Trees For Wall, Hedge, and Pergola: Installation Shaping Care

 Photo by Sillydog

Photo by Dr Bjorn

Photo by Steeljam

Photo by Susan Reimer

 

Photo by JylCat

Photo by Damian Dude

Photo by Kate

Photo by Philip Bouchard

Photo by Nicholas Blake

Photo by She who must

Photo by JPMatth

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Happy Gardening!

Ewa

Recommended further reading Espalier Fruit Trees For Wall, Hedge, and Pergola: Installation Shaping Care

Biggest Seattle's tree taken down...

What can I say... it was heartbreaking to watch, but this amazing elm had to be taken down due to large crack in the trunk... if you can... watch it being removed piece by enormous piece.

Pink pepper growing on a tree in the backyard!

Known as Peruvian pepper, American pepper, Peruvian peppertree, escobilla, false pepper, molle del Peru, pepper tree, peppercorn tree, Californian pepper tree, pirul and Peruvian mastic) is an evergreen tree growing up to 15 meters /50 feet.

Exactly that tree (Schinus molle) is growing here all over Algarve. Local people use it sometimes as pepper, but also mix it with black pepper.

It is native to the Peruvian Andes, pink fruits are sold as ‘pink peppercorns’ although the tree unrelated to true pepper (Piper nigrum).

#pinkpepper #algarve #portugal

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Could you help ID this small amazing tree

This little tree was found by me in December in southern part of Portugal. Do you know maybe what it is?
It is so lovely... flowers resemble those of Hydrangea's... if this could help...

Three Men At Work Correct My Mistake

Three Men At Wotk rescued the maple tree. The heroes of the day. Today one of the first trees ever bought and planted by myself in my garden changed hands/gardens. It was also one of those early mistakes that had to be corrected as soon as possible. I mean earlier than today. This Norway maple (Acer platanoides) Royal Red planted in wrong place. It haven't had enough space to grow and spread  the branches. It doesn't grow fast, so it was not disturbing to the eyes until 2 years ago.   

Have you heard before... it is easy to plant, more difficult to correct mistakes.  Watch this case and think 10 times before you choose a place for the tree...

Wanna see how it left the garden? Have a look below...

Thujas Smaragd will form nice looking evergreen hedge between two the garden parts. Smaragd is nicely green even in the winter, which is not so common. I planted them in the final place, but the maple was supposed to be gone much earlier. Because it was not, today it was not so easy to remove it without harming thujas.  

 Tomek's idea was to use ropes and move thujas to the sides as much away as it was possible... to open the working space...

Zbyszek and Leszek were digging it out, while Tomek was pulling to see how strong it still hold on to the soil.  Thujas were nicely opened... 

 Three Men At Work. Tomek had to pull it to the other side as well to see how strong are the roots still holding on...

 It all took one hour untill my Norway maple Red Royal was ready to get prepared for travel... These are the roots being wrapped...

 See, how nicely packed it was?

 Final touch...

And final loading... this is how much it could go inside.

And Bye, Bye! Have a nice life little maple! I hope to pay a visit once in a while... Tomek... take good care of it! I know where you live...

Recommended reading The Essential Garden Design Workbook: Second Edition

My magnolia flowers in August... hmmm ???

I just came back from garden. Kind of surprised. Beside Aslan (The Cat) 'playing' with the mouse and husband lawn moving, I just have spotted flowers on my magnolia tree. I saw once yellow Magnolia blooming in September, right after planting - it was maybe 40 cm high, but my big Magnolia never bloomed at this season. It had some blooms in April and that was all sensations it provided. But in August???

Maybe it is caused by extraordinary wet weather + occasional heat we have. Like today, +30C.

Or maybe love it gets?

Original spruce trees - Picea abies Cranstonii or Cranston Spruce or Picea abies Virgata

This original spruce tree grows up to 15 m. When I saw for the first time in the local nursery a young specimen, it looked little odd to me. Sometimes it can look really weird when it's young.

It grows slowly, so seeing it in full grandeur is rare possibility. Specimen on the picture grows in Powsin (Poland) in Botanical Garden. I think it is about 30 years old - that's approximate age of the garden.

It stems are long (up to 60 cm) and do not produce side stems. Interesting solitaire tree for really big gardens, otherwise brings too much oddity and chaos to the general impression.

I know there are many great landscape designers among readers of "Ewa in the Garden" , maybe you could share your thoughts and feelings about this tree?

Magnolia soulangeana - frost protected in April

When I saw for the first time a Magnolia soulangeana old tree in bloom, I have had hard time believing it is real tree and real blossom. For 2 weeks in April it is covered with big, rosy-pink, waxy-looking blooms. These are followed by handsome, shiny-green leaves.
Despite of what you may read sometimes in Internet, rosy-pink flowers of M. soulangeana are not fragrant.
Unfortunately in April there may still come freezing nights - this is what we have experienced few days ago. Frost is damaging these beautiful, tulip-looking flowers.
In order to protect it from damage, we covered the tree for 3 the nights. In the evening covering, in the morning taking off the cover. It was possible, because tree is still not large. At the age of 5-6 years, it is about 2 m tall.

Magnolia soulangeana is a gray-barked hybrid between the lily magnolia and the yulan magnolia with different flowers colors that may be white, pink, crimson, or purplish.

Poor, poor me and Last Call to Robinia

2 years ago my garden had just few bigger plants and when one of them: 3 m tall, old shrub of Deutzia (I suppose) was killed by unusual cold (-33C) that came in the winter, I was very very sad. That time I decided to not plant anything that is just on the border of hardiness. It is 6 zone here, so it is advised to plant maximum 5th zone hardy plants. I went further and chose 4th as basic standard :) it is difficult to keep, but if I have a choice, I choose more hardy plant.

My killed shrub looked very sad entire spring 2006 - tall, beige (that's natural color, made it even worse) naked branches, while green was exploding around.

I was waiting, waiting and waiting....

In MAY decided to remove it, as there was no sign of life. I cut down branches, but removing stump was too hard. At the ground it was something like 50 cm in diameter, so I asked my son for help. He tried, but being the city boy and not being accustomed with such jobs, and also not having proper tools, he gave up after few trials.

Stump was waiting for somebody else.... maybe my husband... or some rented force....

One day, at the end of JUNE while passing the place, what was my surprise to see the stump 'decorated' with two 30 cm tall FRESH and GREEN shoots!! It decided to live with us! I was so happy!

Today it is bigger that 2 shoots - mabe 20 already and this year it is blooming, what you can see on the picture above. Lovely, light pink flowers are covering the stems - I am very happy to see it in good shape :) So, it was worth to wait...

Here we come to new case, little different, but little similar, eh.....

The naked body you see here belongs to Robinia Umbraculifera. Thinking of previous case, I was giving it time till the end of JUNE to show any sign of life, especially that I have checked the body and it seems to be alive, but no leaves. Dead or not dead?
Remove it or not? It doesn't look very pretty - naked thin, tall stick in the middle of the garden.... but I wait... 'good gardener always gives last chance to the plant'....

It was transplanted it in October last year, to give it enough time to get used to new place before winter. I was thinking it will be enough, especially that I have bought it with bare roots just 7 months before... there was also almost no winter this year.... so, in my understanding no reason to be offende... right?

I am frustrated, cos I loved the appearence of the hairy mop head and the leaves dancing at even lightest wind!! We did all to give comfort at removal and watered enough....

Litttle hope appeared... after cutting few branches last week, it popped up some leaves ... on the body! One meter from ground! C'mon guy! I don't want on the body, I want on the head! I pinched leaves, cos who wants robinia umbraculifera with hairy body?
I wait for the upper part to start to show some interest with the world....

Do you think I shall have hope? or what shall I do?

Nursery close to Warsaw, in June

These pictures were taken at one of my favourite nurseries. It was for me awsome experience when for the first time I got there - views were truly breathtaking!
This is a nursery with long tradition - have no idea how they survived communist time.
It was started by grand grandfathers, which among other precious plants brought by ship from US this beautiful Metasequoia glyptostroboides.
The tree itself is very impressive - lightness of foliage and interesting colour of bark. There is one more thing that makes it outstanding - arrangement! It is literally smashing in reality. Small cushion plants, mainly different kind of Calluna, on the bottom - make it more beautiful!
The secret is - you need space to present this tree, otherwise it gets lost and loses impact.

Isn't it real discovery to see mature plants, that in our garden are maily small and we have little chance to see them mature, because they grow very slowly. 2-3 cm yearly is everything that Conica was doing! Today 2 m tall Picea glauca Conica known also as White spruce Alberta.

It looks good here with low growing Juniperus and cushion plants.

Columbine - Aquilegia vulgaris plena here Nora Barlow in large beds make a real true experience.

And now my favourite one - flowering rhododendrons.

Different colours, mature shrubs - real breathtaking view!

Last picture taken there, but not last awsome spot to look at - I didn't take pictures of all of them.
I will do it coming spring, cos place is really worth to mention and explore.

On the picture Himalayan Pine - Pinus wallichiana. Looks amazing during 'candle' stage, while all needles look down.

Yellow - an unidentyfied by now kind of Berberis.