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February 18, 2007 : UBC Food Garden
Keywords: Rosaceae | UBC Botanical Garden
Tony Maniezzo is the horticulturist at UBC BG who tends the Food Garden. He's responsible for tending these espaliered apple trees, a display that is one of the highlights for many visitors to the garden. As noted in that link, espalier is a style of training fruit trees into compact shapes – a very valuable technique in small urban gardens. Tony has an upcoming course on how to espalier fruit trees on June 15, but he is also teaching a different course this week, “Vegetable Gardens for Beginners”.
I should note that I've attempted to photograph these espaliered fruit trees many, many times and this is the first time I've been satisfied with the attempt, mostly because of the heavy fog masking the background.
Posted by Daniel Mosquin at February 18, 2007 12:00 AM
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Posted by: Stan Flouride at February 18, 2007 9:00 AM
Congratulations -- a great photo
Posted by: Knox M. Henry at February 18, 2007 12:10 PM
A midwinter memorial of our tasty Apple festival! Thanks!
Posted by: Ruth at February 18, 2007 2:01 PM
Ah ... just the thought of apple blossoms means that warmer days lie ahead! Shaped up the hydrangeas today, roses next.
Posted by: Cyndy Henderson at February 18, 2007 5:09 PM
The new pathway from the tunnel up to the fruit and veg garden is great. It gives visitors a wonderful view of the espaliers. Of course, my favourite is U B C!
Posted by: Debby at February 19, 2007 6:50 PM
Debby, you must mean these ones:
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at February 20, 2007 12:02 AM
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