Looking for dwarf pear for espalier

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  9 January edited 9 January

  When I did my research I was told not to use a dwarfing rootstock for espaliers as they need a certain amount of vigour to counteract  the horizontal training. 
  
  

  I planted a whip … Concorde (self fertile) on a Quince C rootstock and trained it as an espalier … I’ve been very pleased with it … it started fruiting 4 years after planting. Large juicy delicious fruit.  

  
  

  
   

  It occupies an area about 8 or 9 ft wide and has three tiers of branches … that’s all I wanted as it forms a ‘screen’alongside part of our terrace. 

  
  

  If I remember correctly I bought from either Orange Pippin or Chris Bowers … not sure which. 
  
  

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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