#espaliers

[i-am-mycroft-holmes]

Transitional Landscape Design ideas for a large transitional full sun backyard decomposed granite vegetable garden landscape.

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Vegetable Garden - Landscape Design ideas for a large transitional full sun backyard decomposed granite vegetable garden landscape.

[allinonedemo]

Mediterranean Landscape San Diego This is an illustration of a sizable, decomposed granite vegetable garden in a Mediterranean backyard that receives full sun.

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Vegetable Garden (San Diego)

[marzipanandminutiae]

leaning out the window, sighing dramatically, waiting for my true love (a good movie adaptation of Ella Enchanted) to rescue me from horrible circumstances (the current movie adaptation of Ella Enchanted)

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Saturday 11 November 2023

An apple raised by Charles Ross in Berkshire and first exhibited in 1890 was Malus domestica ‘Charles Ross’. It produces large, sweet flavoured, juicy orange-red fruit but should be eaten by the end of October for the best flavour. The blossom attracts bees, and later any fallen fruit are popular with the birds whilst the buds are popular with bullfinches.

Jill Raggett

[lifeinpoetry]

I make a mirror of my open hands / to see you

— Alice Paalen Rahon, from "[Un espalier de larmes non cueillies / A trellis of ungathered tears]," Shapeshifter, tr. Mary Ann Caws

original:

de mes mains ouvertes je fais un miroir / pour te voir

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

Espalier in bloom!

[davidnajewiczphotography]

Espalier on side of house in the medieval town of Rothenberg, Germany

[thevisualvamp]

Garden

[demuthgardens]

Arbor with trained Espaliered apple trees. The trunks grow around the oval on either side of the gate.

[wearethekat]

June Book Reviews: The 30-Minute Gardener by Greg Loades

Picked this book up at the library completely on a whim. One of my rare forays into nonfiction (usually my nonfiction reading is pretty exclusively limited to skimming crafts books, and I don't count things I don't read to cover to cover.) This is a meditation on the beauties of gardening, of going out every day and puttering about and building something bit by bit. It's about watching the seasons turn and taking five minutes to deadhead every day and admiring the dewdrops on the grass. (taking you by the shoulders and rattling you very gently) IT'S ABOUT THE MIRACLE OF THE BEAN SPROUT, THAT EVERY TIME IT EMERGES FROM THE SEED AND GLORIOUSLY UNFURLS-

Ahem. Anyway. This book was very serendipitously timed to catch me in early summer in the mania of planting when everything is just getting started and I'm battiest about gardening. The practical advice included in this book was almost comedically irrelevant-- he's from the north of England, I've lived my whole life in a dry mild Mediterranean climate. Lots of information about winterproofing things for hard freezes and protecting against soggy ground and suggestions for plants that wouldn't work here. But in everything else, this man is precisely exactly on the same wavelength of how I feel about gardening.

This is far enough off from my usual reading that I can't exactly recommend it to you all, but I'll say I had the time of my life reading it.

[flancrossing]

Front Yard in Melbourne An example of a mid-sized contemporary drought-tolerant and partial sun front yard stone landscaping in spring.

[chasteblowjay]

Hi! Would it be okay to ask how you are acquiring your pawpaw trees? I’m curious to grow them, but it’s completely new territory for me both in care and purchase and was wondering if you had any advice.

Internet, basically. There’s no local pawpaw sellers by me. Fast Growing Trees sells 3-4 varieties but the stock goes fast. If you’re not as close to the NY Metro area as I am you may have more luck.

Take some time to read reviews of the different cultivars. Some taste better than others. Paw Paw are not self fertile. Off the top of my head I think that means you’ll need two different cultivars (or at least two different plants) but it’s early in the morning I might be wrong. They are also pollinated by beetles, not bees!

I don’t remember if they have tap roots or not but I know they do not do well in pots. You need to stick them fully in the ground. You can grow them as understory plants but they will not be as fruitful than if you planted them in full sun. The flip side of planting them in full sun is some cultivars can hit 20-30 feet tall.

The best thing about pawpaws is that loads of people are actually very passionate about them! So the information you find online will be fairly comprehensive. You can also reach out to your local university’s cooperative extension or a local master gardener’s network as they’ll have more locally relevant tips for you.

[colwynn-design]

Espaliered Fig Tree (Ficus Carica).

Espalier is a method of training shrubs and small trees to be flat against a wall, similar to a vine. The branches are held back against the wall by ties and smaller branches that grow away from the wall are cut back.

This makes an interesting form for the shrub that allows it to be used in narrower spaces, and makes it easier to harvest fruit.

Not all shrubs are suitable for espaliering, so check first before you try.