Sugar Tyme Trees Fruiting - October 2022
A year and a month ago, I planted a pair of Crabapple trees along the side of our house on the southside. After some hemming-and-hawing about what kind of trees I should plant in this spot (knowing I wanted to espalier them), I decided to plant Sugar Tyme Crabapple trees . Why? Because they're on the list of species that are both suitable for our Zone AND have 'excellent' disease resistance. In the 13 months since planting, I've shown these trees in various posts - both about the trees as well as posts showing off the Disneyland Roses. The most recent post was just last month when I was showing off the late-season blooms on the floribunda roses . My plan for these is to create a Palmette Verrier shape , which calls for the bottom branches to be the longest, followed up each level with a shorter horizontal branch terminating in a vertical segment. So far, I've trained out four levels on one of the trees and three levels on the second tre...