Plant another columnar apple, such as Tangy Green, Golden Tree or Blushing Delight, near Tasty Red for optimal fruit production and cross-pollination. Next, learn why you should plant a weeping ...

Six of our trees (three golden sentinel apple, three lapins cherry) are what are known as ‘columnar’ or vertical cordon trees. Through the magic of precision pruning, these trees produce fruit ...

You can grow trees attached to dwarf rootstock so they stay small. 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.

Columnar Apple Tree. Cristian Bortes / EyeEm / Getty Images. Columnar apple trees were bred to take up as little space as possible, so they're an easy choice for beginners with small gardens.

Other space savers include the columnar apple trees, mostly vertical, reaching 10 or 12 feet, but only 2 or 3 feet wide. “They are great for small areas, for decks and containers.