Rootgrow (150g Granules) For better establishment, naturally healthier plants, better drought resistance and stronger flowering and fruiting, rootgrow™ is all you need. Colin is a Horticulturist and Horticultural Consultant with experience in a range of practical and managerial roles across heritage, commercial and public horticulture. Single-stemmed vertical cordons can potentially reach well over 3m (10ft) if the main stem is left unpruned. Columnar cherry trees and columnar damson trees do grow very compact, however they push out heavily in width after a few years at the latest.

If you want to remove the shoots entirely, it is best to cap them with a saw directly on the central shoot. Thanks to their shape, columnar fruit trees can be planted with smaller spacing to create a natural partition in the garden, a kind of edible hedge, in gardens of any size. Bare Root fruit trees being soaked and planted in January Column Fruit Tree – Apple, a few months after planting.Using the optimum 18” planting distance it is quite possible to easily let the trees meet and slightly grow together forming a fruitful and easily maintained hedge or barrier which can be kept to 7’ in height or so.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Since I don't have that much space in my cottage garden, I decided to make a little avenue with fruit trees from the cottage garden to the lawn underneath the oak.It was one of the most popular varieties in Victorian times and remains a valued garden variety today. If you choose to use one, prepare your support structure and place your well-secured training wires horizontally across this structure. Oblique cordons are generally more productive than minarettes or supercolumns because the slope of the stem mimics the angle of a branch on a regular fruit tree when laden with fruit. Columnar apple trees are created to grow predominantly straight up, reach a height of 8 to 10 feet, and extend outward usually less than 2 feet wide.

This very attractive dessert apple was raised from a cross between two of our favourite British apples - James Grieve and Worcester Pearmain. Planted either side of an arch and trained over to meet in the middle, these are the easiest trees to fulfil such a use. One of the advantages of columnar fruit trees is that they can be grown in a variety of containers, but this form of cultivation introduces the need for additional care. I have purchased some Supercolumn Fruit Trees from Chris Bowers and I am confused about the pruning. Vertical cordons can also be supported against sturdy posts, a pergola or similar permanent structure, or trained over an archway or arbour.For these, dig out a trench along a guide line and plant apple trees in it, for example, at a distance of 50 cm to 60 cm. However, what a lot of people do not know is that red currant bushes can also be grown as columnar fruit trees.