Thanksgiving pie is a tradition for many families, and apple pie is a frequent favorite. Wouldn’t it be great to tell your guests you grew the apples they are enjoying?

Relatively new on the scene are columnar apple trees. These small apple trees grow just 6 to 10 or so feet tall and just a couple of feet wide. They have no horizontal branches — hence their names.

Knowing how to grow an apple tree means you enjoy success with one of the most popular fruits in the world. Apple trees are grown globally and, as there are thousands of cultivars of cooking, eating, ...

You can grow trees attached to dwarf rootstock so they stay small. You don’t need a back 40 to grow a fruit tree. You can buy columnar apple trees bred to grow straight up like an exclamation point.

Columnar Apple Tree. Cristian Bortes / EyeEm / Getty Images. Columnar apple trees were bred to take up as little space as possible, so they're an easy choice for beginners with small gardens.

If space is limited, semi-dwarf apple trees can be trained along a fence or trellis. For really tight spots, consider columnar or true dwarf apple trees, both are available through mail-order ...

Imagine a picket fence made of columnar apple and cherry trees; so beautiful and productive. In our backyard, we have one especially beautiful older espaliered apple tree, producing gala, chehalis and ...

Other space savers include the columnar apple trees, mostly vertical, reaching 10 or 12 feet, but only 2 or 3 feet wide. “They are great for small areas, for decks and containers.

Growing fruit trees always seems like a joyous and productive endeavor, promising you a delicious bounty. Until you actually do it. There are more than 7,500 kinds of apples and thousands of pear ...

Modern dwarf cultivars even mean you can grow apple trees in pots - like this Tangy Green Columnar Apple Tree at Fast Growing Trees, which grows in a compact, upright form and still fruits heavily.

URBANA, Ill. – Apple trees have been a common landscape feature throughout human history. As humans become more urban-dwelling, apple trees are finding new homes in cosmopolitan landscapes far from ...