You're not running out of space for trees, you're just not using enough columnar trees!

So, I got a bit carried away this year and planted hundreds of plants in my suburban yarden. I've now about three dozen fruit trees, and they'll, most of 'em, be pruned to smaller, more compact sizes. I like dense plantings and mass diversity.

Anyway, after analyzing my space, I've realized I can fit in some columnar trees in quite a few places. So, I'm boutta add 6 or 7 columnar apples to my pre-order for next spring.

Any other columnar fruit, nut, utility , or even simply (heh) beautiful trees that you know about?

Here are a few links to some interesting specimens available (or sold out) online:

https://raintreenursery.com/products/blushing-delight%E2%84%A2-urban%E2%84%A2-columnar-apple-semi-dwarf?variant=32009608429623

https://raintreenursery.com/products/scarlet-sentinel-columnar-apple-semi-dwarf?variant=32009601417271

https://www.fast-growing-trees.com/products/amanogawa-flowering-cherry-tree?_fid=5f1482cd5&_pos=20&_sid=9b8bfc878&_ss=r&variant=42679122493502

https://www.fast-growing-trees.com/products/princeton-sentry-columnar-ginkgo-tree?_fid=21c36999e&_pos=3&_sid=bf8a59ab3&_ss=r&variant=32439520952382

https://www.fast-growing-trees.com/products/emerald-spire-crabapple-tree?_fid=7b7e9a8eb&_pos=1&_sid=550525e88&_ss=r&variant=42269077536830

https://onegreenworld.com/product/white-icicle-columnar-apple-tree/

https://onegreenworld.com/product/crimson-rocket-columnar-peach-tree/

https://www.starkbros.com/products/fruit-trees/apple-trees/stark-ultra-spire-apple

https://bowerandbranch.com/products/gladiator-columnar-flowering-crabapple?variant=46890088890522&srsltid=AfmBOor-3qyyA-ZcggMWnF4Ua77r3hEHEtT-JKt4Kk6qt8y805_GVDVYFWk

Do columnar trees take much pruning Chance? Or do they follow a naturally columnar habit?

Nancy Reading wrote:Do columnar trees take much pruning Chance? Or do they follow a naturally columnar habit?

Hi Nancy, so, for the most part, that's what makes them columnar is their naturally upright growth habit. The fruit trees send up a central column and send fruiting spurs out from there.

That's a general description, but some "columnar" trees aren't exactly columnar as a true to definition type, but they grow very compact and upright, simulating the growth habit of true columnar trees.

The latter category require a bit more pruning, but both columnar and columnar adjacent trees require less pruning than standard forms.

Those trees look amazing for folks with a small space.

Sure not the image that I had in mind, though.

8 ft tall and 2 ft wide and imagine them loaded with apples.

I had one a decade or two ago when I lived in Utah and it was an amazing narrow beefy stick with apples growing off of it. They'd make a great visual fence.

Mike Haasl wrote:I had one a decade or two ago when I lived in Utah and it was an amazing narrow beefy stick with apples growing off of it. They'd make a great visual fence.

I'm in Utah. Payson, to be more specific.