I've wanted fruit trees for a long time now, but didn't have the room in my backyard. I have seen espaliered fruit trees for a long time, but it never occured to me to try it myself. Here is the final product. I have the first level done. Each year I will add a level. There will be three levels in all. I will prune it to the lenth of the wires and the height of the fence. I will take up about a foot and half of depth. The variety I planted is Flordahome semi-dwarf pear, mainly because that was what was available and had the right shape to prune.
This is how they looked to begin with. I obviously pruned them a lot.
These are the anchors, with a tightening mechanism, to keep the wire tight. The branches of the tree are trained along the wire.
As you can see, it takes up very little space. Now I just have to weight for it to get big enough to fruit.
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