These days, you can grow apples without the hard work, responsibilities or space required by full-size apple trees. Cute and amazingly compact, columnar apple trees can grow up to 10 feet tall or ...

You don’t need a back 40 to grow a fruit tree. You can buy columnar apple trees bred to grow straight up like an exclamation point. You can grow one tree with several varieties of fruit grafted on it.

Owners of smaller gardens need not think they haven't room for fruit trees, for there are methods of dealing with them to make them more compact. Espaliering is one way: training them to grow flat ...