Love apples but don’t have room for an apple tree in your yard? Grow a Columnar Apple tree in a pot! They’re apple trees that are easy to grow in pots! I do have a mini orchard in my backyard but I was fascinated by the idea of these fruit trees a few years ago and ordered two from Stark Bros.com (there are lots of other places that sell these trees).
Apple Trees That Grow In Pots
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These trees are created to mostly grow up (like columns) not out so they’re perfect for a patio, balcony, urban garden or any space where you don’t have room to grow even a dwarf variety of fruit tree. They fruit on the main trunk on spurs, but if you let some of the side branches grow you get a sort of tall apple bush!
These grow between 7′-9′ tall and you can plant them in the ground but they do well in whiskey barrels. I bought mine several years ago and these are not self-pollinating. I don’t know if they offer a variety that is these days. But that’s something to remember. If it’s not self-pollinating you’ll need two. I’ve had these for about 4 years (when you first get them they just look like sticks!)
I was using them as a screen to block the view of the compost bins (there are 3 in a row) since we had a seating area to the left of the trees.
But now I’m just glad that I’ll have some apple trees that produce when we move! I can’t remember what varieties my two apple trees are. But if you’re interested in this type of tree you can search Columnar fruit tree .
You can get other varieties besides apple like plum, cherry, peach, pear etc!
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I have never heard of these. Thanks for the info!
That’s a wonderful idea!
Our fruit trees are struggling. We need to amend our soil. Hubby is working on a drainage project today so hopefully soon the trees will get some attention! It’s a learning curve, isn’t it? I’m happy to learn every year.
I love this idea! Here in eastern Montana the ground is horrible. We planted our garden in huge feed buckets a neighbor gave to us. I’ll be researching fruits trees that I can do this with. Thanks for the inspiration!
I will have to look into these trees. I have little gardening space, but I would love to have some fruit trees.
Amazing to me! I’m trying to count how many apples you will be getting.
I have never heard of them and the apples are so big. I will have to research them and see if we can grow them here. I would love to have some if we can.
Manuela this is the first post I have been able to read in quite awhile. Every time I clicked on your blog whether from your E-mail or blogloving it told me there was a malicious problem and it wouldn’t let me open it. My husband disabled it so I could tell you about this problem. I love your blog and I have missed you very much. I don’t know how many other people are having problems with this so I wanted you to know. Thanks.
How I odd? No one has mentioned it before. Thank you for telling me – I’ll have to research why this would be happening. So glad your husband was able to disable it!
I’ve never heard of such a thing / I do LOVE your gardening posts 🙂 Going to have to pin this one! 🙂
I haven’t visited the Stark Bros site in years. Thanks for the reminder. I am amazed at everything you grow.
Well who knew? Love this idea – perfect for our son!!!
Enjoy your day
Leann
I love this idea as well for my small backyard, but wonder about how well they winter over. Definitely going to research these trees, though, to see if they’d be an option here.
Love this idea. Have to try it!
Wonderful! I think that I might try this. I love the plates in the pots, is there a reason for them or just decoration?
Hi Theresa, Yes give this a try. The plates are just for decoration. I had some blue and white plates that I don’t use anymore and didn’t want to donate them so I stuck them in various pots for a bit of whimsy. Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by!