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A horizontal espalier Free-standing espaliered fruit trees (step-over) at Standen, West Sussex.The trees are used to create a fruit border or low hedge.. Espalier (/ ɪ ˈ s p æ l ɪər / or / ɪ ˈ s p æ l i. eɪ /) is the horticultural and ancient agricultural practice of controlling woody plant growth for the production of fruit, by pruning and tying branches to a frame.
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The plant prefers well-drained, moist, organic rich soil. It requires plenty of moisture in the growing season and a warm, sunny position, sheltered from the wind. It can be cultivated in small places such as in a pot, and allowed to spread on a trellis or roof. In rural areas, many houses with thatched roofs are covered with the gourd vines.
Canary creeper trailing on a trellis. Ficus pumila's vigorous wall growth Spring growth of Virginia creeper Scrambling habit of climbing groundsel. Confederate jasmine with flowers Bower vine's showy flowers Mandevilla trailing on trellis Oceanblue morning glory German ivy creeping on ground. Actinidia arguta, the tara vine; Actinidia polygama ...
Trellis in the courtyard of the Wernberg monastery, Wernberg, Carinthia, Austria A trellis (treillage) is an architectural structure, usually made from an open framework or lattice of interwoven or intersecting pieces of wood, bamboo or metal that is normally made to support and display climbing plants, especially shrubs.
Plant domestication is seen as the birth of agriculture. However, it is arguably proceeded by a very long history of gardening wild plants. While the 12,000 year-old date is the commonly accepted timeline describing plant domestication, there is now evidence from the Ohalo II hunter-gatherer site showing earlier signs of disturbing the soil and cultivation of pre-domesticated crop species. [8]
Fruit carving is included in Matthias Giegher's 1621 work Il Trinciante ("The Carver"), where he describes carving oranges and citrons into abstract patterns, shell-fish, four-legged animals and the Habsburgs' double-headed eagle, but the art was not common in Europe or North America until the 1980s when several books on the topic were published.
Tree melon is a term used for several melon-like fruits growing on trees or large shrubs as opposed to melons, which grow on vines: Carica papaya (Papaya) of the Caricaceae; Solanum muricatum (Pepino) of the Solanaceae; Neither of these is a true melon, as those are in the Cucurbitaceae