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{{ :hage:espalier.jpg?200|}} **Espalier** er i hagen ein måte å dyrka tre på, og han er ganske ny for meg. Metoden blir mykje brukt til frukttre av ulike grunnar -- for å få mest mogleg frukt på eit handterbart stort tre, for å få plass til fleire tre, og fordi det ser ganske snasent ut. Meistrane av espaliergartnarane er franskmennene: ---- > //The incredible number and variety of fruit forms bears witness to two predominant French tendencies: the love of variety and complication, and, when it comes to plants, a compulsion to prune and train. I'll leave it up to you to infer what these compulsions might mean in the larger picture of the French personality. But, in gardening, these innately French traits combined to give us the fine art of espalier.// ([[http://www.frenchgardening.com/tech.html?pid=11404494171342000|The Fine Art of Espalier--Part III]]) Her ser me nokre av dei mange formene som finst: * [[http://www.espalierservices.com/patterns.html|Typical espalier patterns]] (espalierservices.com) Real English Fruit skriv om fruit training: * http://www.realenglishfruit.co.uk/content/treetraining.htm Chris Bowers & Sons skriv om vifteforming: * http://www.chrisbowers.co.uk/fan-trained-espalier-fruit-trees.php
