There is a bit of ancient Rome and a taste of old Egypt at the Master Gardener Demonstration Garden at the Patrick Ranch. Butte County MGs are practicing espaliering, the early horticultural art of ...

If you’d love to grow fruit trees but think you don’t have the space, think again. You don’t need an orchard or even a large backyard to enjoy garden-picked fruit. Instead, use a method perfected by ...

Pat Morgan of Westlake Village wrote to the SoCal Garden Clinic to ask: My fig tree was started from a cutting three years ago and was recently transplanted to our atrium. It has been in a container ...

Espalier is a way of training and pruning plants so their branches lie in an orderly and ornamental two-dimensional form. The beauty comes from the tracery of the branches. Espalier is a way to create ...

Espalier design is an ancient pruning practice that fashions fruit trees, vines or flowering shrubs into artistic lateral forms. This shaping makes it easier to harvest and mow, maximizes sunlight, ...

This photo of an espalier tree, taken at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pa., shows a typical ''Cordon" design with its vertical trunk and multi-tiered horizontal branches. The lateral shaping ...

A brick wall, a blank fence, a small garden with no room for a tree: These are all invitations for an espalier. An espalier is a tree or shrub trained to grow in a flat plane, generally against a wall ...

Maile Arnold's exuberant garden sprawls over a sunny 2 acres in Sebastopol, so you might expect this landscape designer to know little about the space constraints of the urbanite. Her 18 varieties of ...

When planning or reworking your kitchen garden, try to think of a plant or technique that will do more than one thing well. Some ways to make the best use of your space include: TIER PLANTING: Place ...

If you’d love to grow fruit trees but think you don’t have the space, think again. You don’t need an orchard or even a large backyard to enjoy garden-picked fruit. Instead, use a method perfected by ...

The Associated Press This photo of an espalier tree, taken at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pa., shows a typical “Cordon” design with its vertical trunk and multi-tiered horizontal branches. The ...