Fruit trees for small spaces
Squeezing fruit trees into a small garden isn't as impossible as it seems. Train fruit against fences and you'll not only fit in one tree – you can choose several from the mouthwatering range in our garden centre. Here are some great ideas for fitting fruit into the smallest of gardens:
- Minarets: Vertical upright stems laden with fruit on short spurs. Great for growing in containers or for pretty vertical accents in your garden. Use for: apples, pears, plums and cherries.
- Cordons: Also single-stemmed, but trained at 45º to encourage more fruit. Spaced 75cm apart you'll fit four varieties into just 3m. Use for: apples, pears, redcurrants, gooseberries
- Espaliers: vertical stems with tiers of horizontal branches trained out at 30cm intervals along wires. A beautiful way to cover walls and fences. Use for: apples, pears, plums, apricots, peaches
- Fans: branches are splayed out from two arms at the base in an even fan across the wall. Use for: plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots
- Stepovers: like cordons but bent at right angles and trained horizontally to a wire 45cm above the ground. They make wonderful edging. Use for: apples
Please ask the staff in our garden centre in Athlone for more information and advice about growing fruit trees in small spaces.
