Although it grows at a rate similar to other apple trees, the columnar apple is a heavy producer of fruit in the first year. Apples need cold nights and warm days to set fruit.

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.

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 ...

Through the magic of precision pruning, these trees produce fruit vertically along and very close to the trunk, as opposed to branching dwarf trees that produce fruit horizontally along branches.

These columnar apples could easily be used as an edible hedge row. Plum Trees – Plum trees were more common in the past, but many people still enjoy them.

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.

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. Pollination ...

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 ...

Apple trees can be pruned to almost any shape Q: I have a columnar apple tree about 5 years old or so. A couple of years ago it lost its vertical stem in a storm and it now growing sideways.