by admin | Jul 7, 2021 | 'garden tree', 2021, apples, architectural structure, back gardens, bare root fruit trees, bees, bees and insects, berries, biodiversity, cooking apples, Copper Mango Photography, Design, designing your own garden, fences, focal points in the garden, fruit cordons, fruit trees, garden design, garden relaxation, Gardeners' World Magazine, habitat for wildlife, insect habitat, July, pears, Plants, plums, Potager, Potager gardens, Raised wooden beds, RHS Garden Hyde Hall, Scotland's Gardens Scheme, shapes, soft fruit, spring blossom, spring colour, Stepover fruit hedge, Stepover fruit trees, trained fruit as screens, trained fruit trees on walls, Trained fruit: think design as well as taste, trees, winter structure
Imagine wandering through your own orchard, enjoying spring blossom and the buzz of bees, the laughter of children playing amongst the trees, picking ripe fruit in the autumn. Lovely as it sounds, most of us have much smaller gardens, but you can work them hard and...
by GillianPolley | Oct 29, 2015 | 'garden tree', 2015, autumn, back gardens, bare root fruit trees, colour in the garden, cooking apples, Design, Edinburgh, fences, focal points in the garden, front garden, fruit trees, garden gifts, German Apple Cake, pears, plums, Polley Garden Design, Potager, sculpture in the garden, september, spring colour, trained fruit trees on walls, Tweed Valley Fruit Trees
I think growing fruit adds another dimension to a garden, from beautiful blossom in spring to watching the fruit slowly mature and ripen and finally enjoying the taste of your own apples, pears and plums. From growing fruiting trees to wiring up a boundary wall or...
by GillianPolley | Oct 31, 2014 | back gardens, bare root fruit trees, Design, Edinburgh, fences, front garden, fruit trees, Plants, plums, Polley Garden Design, spring blossom, Stepover fruit trees, Tweed Valley Fruit Trees
It has been a bumper year for fruit in our gardens and I often include fruit trees in my garden designs. A great way of making the most of sunny walls and fences in a garden is to wire them up and add some trained fruit trees. Or you can put in wooden posts...
