mini patio fruit trees

theoretica

sortofwinning wrote: »

Theoretica, I can't see what the problem is, apart from it looking like the horticultural equivalent of The Stepford Wives. I'm a *very* amateur gardener. I guess it's not the typo "The shrubs grow in similar shape and size and suitable for small and large gardens"??? (In case it's not obvious, I work in an office and not a garden centre!!)

They just photoshopped the different colour berries - I was particularly taken with the blueberry which had currant leaves.

A demonstration that you should treat the fruit laden pictures with caution.

andrewf75

sortofwinning wrote: »

Andrewf75, we do have a fence and walls but I thought it would take ages and ages to wait for a fruit tree to grow so I was looking for speedier solutions, plus I know you said it won't take much space but I've seen apple and pear trees in my auntie's garden and they were pretty big. Maybe it's possible to prune the living daylights out of them to keep them small, I don't know these things. I have to get a beginners gardening book and start learning.

It doesn't take long. A couple of years I think. The trees you buy for this purpose are grown on a dwarf rootstock so they don't grow very big. You can train them on a standard size fence. The advantage of doing this over having one in a pot is that it won't dry out and run out of nutrients if you forget to feed and water it.

sortofwinning

theoretica wrote: »

They just photoshopped the different colour berries - I was particularly taken with the blueberry which had currant leaves.

A demonstration that you should treat the fruit laden pictures with caution.

So I did spot it!! That's what I meant by the Stepford Wives, they looked too perfect to be real, but to be honest I still thought they were real. I thought that they just had really talented gardeners. The flower beds in my local park remind me a bit of that, they look like they've spent the day at the flower hairdressers or something. They're overly neat.

andrewf75 wrote: »

It doesn't take long. A couple of years I think. The trees you buy for this purpose are grown on a dwarf rootstock so they don't grow very big. You can train them on a standard size fence. The advantage of doing this over having one in a pot is that it won't dry out and run out of nutrients if you forget to feed and water it.

That sounds too good to be true! I have to go on the lookout for these. Proper fruit trees, but little ones! I'm going to search for them, but I think I'll avoid that site where they used the Photoshopping. I mean, you expect it for supermodels and actors but who Photoshops a fruit bush???