Espalier Booklet
Espalier: Essentials of the Candelabra Pattern
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A description of
Espalier: Essentials of the Candelabra Pattern
This 56-page booklet contains all the information needed to successfully grow a candelabra espalier. If you are like me, you have been captivated by espalier, cannot find a retailer with the right plant, and cannot find detailed instructions anywhere. So, here is what I have learned over fifteen years about the candelabra espalier.
The directions are specifically for the apple or pear plants. A person who follows the directions will be eating the fruit of a three tier apple or pear candelabra in five years, barring unexpected stresses from Mother Nature.
The book pays for itself by saving your time spent finding directions and by preventing problems that can make first espaliers fail.
What is in the book?
- The language of espalier: the terms for different parts of an espalier and different kinds of branches. A glossary ends of the booklet.
- Illustrated directions for the plant-shaping techniques used in espalier with the expected results of each technique.
- How to choose where to plant the espalier (site selection)
- Planting directions as well as directions for the permanent support frameworks the espalier requires.
- Directions for what to do to the plant and when to do it for the years that the main branches are trained.
- Directions on how to keep the plant to the limited shape and harvest the fruit.
- A dandy checklist to peruse to assure yourself that you cover all the important points.
About Katherine Aby
Since 1995, the focus of my work has been all things espalier: learning, practicing, designing, writing and teaching. I am an espalier fanatic.
While traditional espaliers of apples, pears, cherries, and currants have been the bulk of my work, I’ve also worked on these species: Gingko, Amelanchier, Prunus maackii, Forsythia, and Cercis canadensis. The most concentrated display of my work is at the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum; I’ve been their exclusive espaliest since 1995.