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[Pat Meadows <pat@containerseeds.com>]

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 20:41:00 -0400, you wrote:

>I will be driving to Pennsylvania and Ohio this week looking at  
>colleges with my daughter. I'd also like to get some photos of some  
>fruit plants that are being used for "edible landscaping," that is,  
>not planted in an orchard or production garden setting, but being  
>used as specimen trees, ornamental hedges, groundcovers, foundation  
>plantings, etc. Does anybody out there have any suggestions for  
>gardens that I could visit that would fill this bill? Thanks for your  
>help.
>

I wonder if Longwood has any fruit plants used in this way?
They have a 'demonstration house and garden', with a food
garden, so it is possible.

You could email them and ask.  They are down in southeastern
Pennsylvania.

http://www.longwoodgardens.com

You have probably been there, but if not:  it is not be
missed by anyone interested in gardening, perhaps the
world's preeminent public gardens.

Another possibility would be the Rodale Institute, in
Emmaus.

http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/  

Penn State University in State College has a medieval
garden, and may have espaliered or pleached fruit trees.  

http://www.psu.edu/dept/medieval/garden.html

Pat
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