Home & Interior
Description
Category of espalier shapes that resemble a house or piece of furniture.
Features of the espalier form:
- espalier form often consists of several trees
- framework branches guided in the shape of a house or piece of furniture
- espalier construction usually (semi-)permanent in nature
- fruitwood is grown short on the stem branch
Some forms are historical espalier forms and were already present centuries ago. Example: ‘form Table’. Others belong to the modern espalier forms and are of more recent date. Examples: form ‘House‘, form ‘Chair’.
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category Home & Interior
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Opinion
These espalier forms are mainly an expression of creativity; fruit production is less important.
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Types of espalier shapes
shape 'House'
Minimum 4 fruit trees, led to a house with a roof
form 'Table'
Fruit trees trained into a table
shape 'Chair'
Each chair leg is a fruit tree
