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A sunny wall or tence is the perfect place for an espaBered fruit tree. Elkwood Crossing Nursery near Brandy Station has a nice selection of espaliered apples ready to go in the ground.

What kid doesn’t love grapes? \bu may have seen vineyards in our area with carefully pruned vines.

If you want to grow grapes commercially, they need special care. If you would be happy with handfuls of grapes as a treat, you can grow them on any sturdy structure.

You’d be hard-pressed to find an old-fashioned garden without its grape arbor, and for good reason. It is so pleasant to sit under a cod, shady arbor. Grape flowins have a wonderfully sweet fragrance. The leaves can be blanched and rolled around rice or other fillings. Even the young tendrils make a good snack. If the birds get all your grapes, you still get the rest and bird-watching too.

Almost any yard benefits from a little privacy A blooming and fruiting hedge can be interesting and functional.

Rugosa roses are an old-foshioned beauty They’re big and loud and prickly and tough. Rugoea starts blooming in early summer with very fragrant blooms that turn into gumbail-size or higpw red hips (fruit) in fall.

The hips are edible right off the bush or make a great hot

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