Nothing will turn your backyard into a luscious oasis like an orchard of dwarf fruit trees. You don’t even need a lot of ground area to grow a small tree; put them in containers and reenergize ...

Dwarf fruit trees are smaller varieties of your favorite plants, including lime, avocado, olive, and more. These smaller plants can be grown in containers—and they may be just what you need ...

For instance, most fruit trees tower 30 feet high, while their dwarf varieties settle for half their size (about 15 feet). Overall, though, dwarf ornamentals usually stay under 6 feet, but make ...

Dwarf apple trees and sour cherry trees grow to about 10 feet, can live for up to 15 years, begin bearing fruit in their second or third year and can yield 75 to 100 pounds of fruit per tree each ...

Best of all, these dwarf fruit trees won’t take over your yard. Options are endless, and some will even flourish in containers. We’ve suggested one variety for each type of dwarf fruit tree.

Indoor fruit trees will add color and vibrancy to your home, just like any of the best indoor plants, and they’ll also provide you with some delicious homegrown goodies … as long as the ...

As useful as dwarf fruit trees can be, there are a few potential problems in purchasing them. Many nurseries do a poor job of providing rootstock information on dwarf fruit trees.

The nurseries sell the espaliers bare-rooted for winter planting. Dimmock says to buy two trees, ... Dwarf fruit trees are sold as grafted root stock of a true dwarf species, ...

Dwarf fruit trees come in two broad categories – genetic dwarfs, and fruit trees that are not typically ... Raintree Nursery, an online retailer, has a variety of dwarf plum trees available.

Genetic dwarf fruit trees have their short stature bred into their genetic makeup. ... a fruit tree specialist with 20 years of nursery experience, gives pruning classes in the San Francisco Bay Area.

So-called dwarf fruit trees, a.k.a. patio apples, are gateway plants for budding urban permaculturists. One of the first things I did when we committed to an urban permaculture make-over, was ...

For dwarf fruit trees you will need at least 2 feet of raised bed on top of a foot or two of soil. When planting a tree in the ground, do not add a large amount of purchased topsoil or compost to ...