My Espalier Nectarine Tree

Espalier is a French word which refers to a growing technique for trees.  It comes from the Italian "spalliera" meaning to rest the shoulder against.  It's a good technique for growing fruit trees when space is limited.  When we went to George Washington's place at Mt. Vernon, he had a walled off garden area with several of these trees.  I started my nectarine tree two years ago.  Each year a new row is tied to the trestle.  As you can see I have two rows and I'm waiting for this spring to tie down the third row.

I know it's a bit ghetto, but it's my first.  One day it'll look like this:

Cityscape

Mamma said I haven't posted in awhile.  Yes, I've been lazy, but here's the first one of 2015.

Wifey and I went to New York a few years ago and she loved the place, especially all the lights and high rises.  So I brought New York to her, sort of.

We have a long cinder block wall that worked as a good back drop.  I took 1/8 inch rod, from a welding supply store, and bent it in the shape of buildings.  Then, with much patience, I hot glued a strand of LED cool white Christmas lights to the rods.  Lastly, I used anchors to attach the rods to the wall.

Hmmm, I lost my iPhone two weeks ago and all the pictures I took of the process.  Oh well.  Here's the  finished product (about 1/4 of what's going up).