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A field of green grass with rows of soil. A fence goes down the middle of the field, with tall wooden fence posts and thin wire. Green trees line the background and a cloudy blue sky fills the top of the photograph.
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Charles Boone
Confined largely to my own yard for several months as the COVID-19 shutdown evolved, I fussed over many projects around the house, but focused upon several that were related to the development of the family apple orchard. The first was simply planting three overpriced apple trees for a big box store sale in the yard, along a fence line. These are espaliered to follow the fence, no more than a foot deep but 8 feet across. This to experiment with the possibilities of both space efficiency and the ornamental possibilities of apple trees. In their second season, the trees are quite vigorous and simply require the therapeutic work of frequent pruning…a lot like sculpture.
