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, ...

What are columnar apples? In the 1960s, a McIntosh apple tree was found expressing a natural gene mutation causing it to grow in a columnar form -- with many fruiting spurs along the main trunk.

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. You can grow one tree with several varieties of fruit grafted ...

Columnar apple trees were bred to take up as little space as possible, so they're an easy choice for beginners with small gardens. Also, because they stay compact, it’s easier to keep up with ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Most dwarf type trees you will find available for purchase are the latter type, and their size and shape can be further managed by pruning, and controlling how and where they are planted. Six of our ...

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.

Q: I have moved to a property with established columnar apple and espaliered fruit trees. I would like to know when to fertilize, what to use, and how much at each application.

One of the latest popular trees in the apple world are “columnar” trees. They grow up shaped like a column on the front porch of a house, with no lateral branches.

Both dwarf apple tree and columnar-shaped trees grow 10- to 15-feet tall. Columnar cultivars have very narrow branching for the limited space in urban settings.