THE GARDEN ORCHARD
When starting at a garden scale, what you plant can rather depend on what you have to begin with. You might be fitting a few trees into an already established garden or designing a garden from a blank canvas.
On a domestic scale, almost all gardens can incorporate one or more fruit trees; it really is a case of the right tree for the right space. While the field orchard may have taller trees (what we might think of as those traditional fruit trees), in the garden and especially small gardens and yards, we can look at trained and dwarfing forms of fruit trees. I have often heard the lament: “I don’t have room for a fruit tree” when in truth, through good design, a range of fruit trees can be included in almost any garden.
