Apple cordon trees

[davholla]

Sorry to disagree with you barnowl, but a cordon has a single main stem and is grown at an angle of up to 45deg. The columns or minarettes seem to be the same type of thing, just grown vertically instead of at an angle. The advantage of the cordon is that the angle means the main stem can be longer for the same overall height. I imagine that cordons, Minarettes and columns would all be pruned in exactly the same way.

However what you are saying is that Deacon's nursery is wrong ?

[davholla]

[Barnowl]

Apologies all round - I let work interrupt my thinking!  You're quite right Spanner, I meant to write about the parallel angled stems,  but wrote about espaliers (probably because I'm trying to decide whether to get another pear to espalier) :-[

[davholla]

One extra question I have some space in my raspberry bed 4 ft. Could I put a bailerina there ?

[flytrapman]

I thought you could have single stemmed cordons, U shaped double stemmed cordons, etc

[davholla]

Thanks for that.  I will put one there.