Espalier design is an ancient pruning practice that fashions fruit trees, vines or flowering shrubs into artistic lateral forms. This shaping makes it easier to harvest and mow, maximizes sunlight, ...

Espalier design is an ancient pruning practice that fashions fruit trees, vines or flowering shrubs into artistic, two-dimensional forms. This lateral shaping makes it easier to harvest and mow, ...

Perhaps you've never heard the term espalier, a technique for training a tree or other plant against a trellis, but examples abound in Sonoma County. These range from ornamental vines on fences to ...

This photo of an espalier tree, taken at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pa., shows a typical ''Cordon" design with its vertical trunk and multi-tiered horizontal branches. The lateral shaping ...

In 2008, L’Espalier moved from its Gloucester Street brownstone, cramped and romantic, to a new space adjacent to the Mandarin Oriental hotel on Boylston. A few blocks away, it is a world apart, ...