How to Espalier Fruit Trees: Rootstock Selection, Scions & Pruning 🍎 🍐 🍒

If you have a small garden, you may think you do not have room for a fruit tree, but espalier fruit trees are beautiful, small and productive and can be grown up against a wall or fence. #orchardpeople #fruittreecare #espaliergarden

In this video, Ron Perry, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus (retired) from the Department of Horticulture of Michigan State University (MSU) explains how to espalier fruit trees and he focuses on rootstock selection, scion selection and espalier pruning.

📙 For more information, you can check out Ron's book, Espalier Fruit Trees for Northern Gardens: Creating Fruit Trees as Art. You can purchase it here:
https://www.amazon.com/Espalier-Fruit...

🎤 This is a 5-minute video excerpt from an information-packed hour-long podcast on creating an espalier garden. To listen to the full podcast, download Episode 80 of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast here:
https://orchardpeople.com/podcasts/

🎙️ The host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care training website OrchardPeople.com and author of Grow Fruit Trees Fast: A Beginner's Guide to a Healthy Harvest in Record Time:
https://amzn.to/3xeKHdN

For more podcasts on fruit tree pruning check the content below:

EASY GROW Fruit Trees and PRUNING with Harold Thornbro & Susan Poizner
🎤 https://share.transistor.fm/s/14567cd5
🎥    • EASY TO GROW Fruit Trees and PRUNING with ...  
🌐 https://podcast.orchardpeople.com/epi...

Fruit Tree Pruning Techniques with Tom Spellman
🎤 https://share.transistor.fm/s/bc5000c1
🎥    • How to PRUNE Fruit Trees and Roses with To...  
🌐 https://podcast.orchardpeople.com/epi...

How to Grow a Fruiting Wall
🎤 https://share.transistor.fm/s/6e2971b7
🎥    • Easy Pruning & Heavy Fruiting: Growing a F...  
🌐 https://podcast.orchardpeople.com/epi...

Espalier Fruit Trees for Small Gardens
🎤 https://share.transistor.fm/s/38169834
🎥    • Espalier for Beginners: Growing Fruit Tree...  
🌐 https://podcast.orchardpeople.com/epi...

How to Prune Old Fruit Trees
🎤 https://share.transistor.fm/s/57cab599
🎥    • OLD APPLE TREE PRUNING with Orchard Educat...  
🌐 https://podcast.orchardpeople.com/epi...

Maintaining Your Fruit Tree Pruning Tools
🎤 https://share.transistor.fm/s/617747ab
🎥   • Sharpening Tree Pruning Tools 🪚🌳 🧰 with Or...  
🌐 https://podcast.orchardpeople.com/epi...

CHAPTERS:
00:00 What are Espalier Fruit Trees?
00:53: Productivity and Rootstock Selection
01:52 Why Dwarf Rootstock is Important
03:01 Variety or Scion Selection
04:23 Lorette System of Pruning

Are you ready to learn more about fruit tree care, read on!

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