There is a bit of ancient Rome and a taste of old Egypt at the Master Gardener Demonstration Garden at the Patrick Ranch. Butte County MGs are practicing espaliering, the early horticultural art of ...

If you’d love to grow fruit trees but think you don’t have the space, think again. You don’t need an orchard or even a large backyard to enjoy garden-picked fruit. Instead, use a method perfected by ...

The old-fashioned art of growing espaliered (is-pal-yerd) plants has a place in many modern gardens, especially smaller ones. When a garden border is narrow and against a wall or fence, this method of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Sometimes in the garden you just draw a blank. A blank wall, that is, or a blank fence, or a blank on ideas for how to screen the garbage cans or the ...

There is a bit of ancient Rome and a taste of old Egypt at the Master Gardener Demonstration Garden at the Patrick Ranch. Espalier, the early horticultural art of pruning and training a tree or shrub ...