Planting a fruit tree is often requires a years-long time investment before you yield any fruit, but this option is perfect ...

The trees often produce fruit in their first year and they can grow to be about 15 feet tall. And the apple twist has one more incentive -- the pollination naturally attracts honey bees.

And most rootstocks are chosen to make trees grow slowly so that you get apples that are easy to reach from the ground. Because I have a small orchard space, I asked for dwarfing rootstock. All of my ...

For homeowners, she recommends dwarf trees, which range from 8 to 10 feet tall, and are particularly popular and easy to find in nurseries. “Dwarfs are so much easier to manage,” Chernoh said.

Growing fruit trees at home is a tall order, but there are some sweet success stories (Ours isn’t one of them.) ... “They want apple trees plus something else,” he explained.

Standard-sized apple trees may grow to 35 or 40 feet in height. You might be able to keep a standard-sized tree under 20 feet tall through pruning, but the standard-sized apple tree is just too ...

Tall apple trees have been replaced with dwarf trees. These trees are planted on trellises for support and are much smaller than what one might picture when they think of an apple tree, ...

Weiant’s 3-foot-tall apple fence is constructed out of Fuji and gala trees that were alternately planted every 6 feet. The trunks act as fence posts; branches were trained to grow sideways as ...