A columnar apple tree is a perfect pick for growing tasty fruit in small spaces! Learn how to care for these unique fruit trees.

They seem content and I am very happy with how the trees fit into my garden plan, and the joy they have brought me and my family and friends. Charming dwarf northern spy apple tree in an underplanted ...

A combination apple tree might include a branch each of Jonagold, Liberty, Yellow Delicious and Gravenstein. Other space savers include the columnar apple trees, mostly vertical, reaching 10 or 12 ...

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 ...

Both dwarf apple tree and columnar-shaped trees grow 10- to 15-feet tall. Columnar cultivars have very narrow branching for the limited space in urban settings.

Relatively new on the scene are columnar apple trees. These small apple trees grow just 6 to 10 or so feet tall and just a couple of feet wide. They have no horizontal branches — hence their names.

Columnar apple trees were bred to take up as little space as possible, so they're an easy choice for beginners with small gardens.

However, that doesn’t mean it is impossible to get an apple tree to root from a hardwood cutting, but the success rate will be low and it may take up to six months for the cutting to root.