Geo and I purchased an Espaliered Apple Tree. The tree has six different branches from six different types of apple trees grafted onto a main trunk. I first noticed this type of apple tree last spring when we first moved to the Island. For a small tree it was loaded with different apples. The tree we purchased has a main trunk with 6 branches from 6 different types of apple trees grafted onto it. It looks pretty spindly right now.
The term "espalier" refers to the practice of training a tree to grow along one flat vertical plane in a flattened fashion, such as along a wall or on the side of a house. We plant our tree between our deer fence and the road that goes down to the back of our lot and will need to continue to train it so that it remains in a flat vertical fashion so that the branches do not grow out towards the road.
...and I recorded the different types of apples that are on this tree:
...and this is what we hope our apple tree will look like...
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