My dad's just had new 6ft fences out up and they look a bit bare.
I'm redesigning the garden at the moment, and i'm planning on extending the beds out and making them wavy.
My question is: can you train fruit bushes and canes as well as trees along an espalier pattern along a fence? I've got a gooseberry bush, a blackcurrant bush, a redcurrant bush an a loganberry cane. Can i plant these and train them?
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Hi from downunder. Pskipper may be right. I know that loganberries need to be trained on wires, and gooseberries need to be trained as a bush. I have never seen black or red currants done that way, normally as per gooseberry. My black currant bushes grow up to 1.5m high, so they would look OK near the fence.
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