Low-maintenance fruit trees: Easy to prune, productive, and resistant.

Gardeners are showing an increasing interest in fruit trees and shrubs. At the same time, gardens are getting smaller and most gardeners lack time and expertise. Fortunately, there are now many varieties of small trees that are both generous, resistant, and suitable for limited spaces. In this book, you will find:

• a detailed presentation of new fruit forms, dwarf or columnar, at human height, requiring little maintenance,

• a selection of dwarfing rootstocks for old or modern varieties, helping to reduce the vigor of cultivated trees,

• a range of varieties that are less susceptible to diseases and pests: apple trees, pear trees, cherry trees, plum trees and pluots, peach trees, nectarine trees, apricot trees, fig trees, citrus trees...

• basic prophylactic measures to preserve the good health of fruit trees: exposure, environment, soil, fertilization... as well as tailored advice for the easy pruning of these trees,

• a description of gentle, curative, and preventive treatments, if necessary, to effectively protect the plants.