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The indispensable fruit and vegetable claie Truly trucs The Fine Art of Espalier--Part III The Simple Pleasures of Conserving Fruits for Winter In the land of the mistletoe... The Woven Hedge The art and science of the herbier A tool--or three or four--for every purpose Wild harvest Plants to the rescue of plants The ancient art of topiary Beauty, birds, and lots of berries! Alchemy of flowers Practice pralinage on your bare-root plants. The Fine Art of Espalier--Part II Plant good neighbors Prunings into plant supports Containing cascading shrubs Fabulous fumier Osier plant ties Nettles to the rescue Weave a living fence Rainwater reserves For me, nothing is more quintessentially French gardening than the art of espaliering fruit trees. Combining form and function, aesthetics with micromanagement--in short, fiddling with fruit trees to make them as productive and beautiful as possible. What is an espalier? It is any tree or shrub pruned and formed (t...