Backyard Orchard Design

08/27/2026

A client shared this photo of their harvest, and it absolutely made my day. 🌱🥕🍅

Seeing food growing, being harvested, and enjoyed is such a simple reminder of why I love what I do.

Plant beauty. Grow legacy. Taste abundance.

08/26/2026

08/24/2026

Paw paw. Honeyberry. Currants. Elderberry. Juneberry. Persimmon. Gooseberries

How many have you actually tasted?

Most homeowners in Chester County have eaten zero of these — and they all grow easily right here in SE PA.

Comment TASTE and I'll send you the shortlist of which ones do best in a home yard.

Plant Beauty. Grow Legacy. Taste Nature.

08/20/2026

Here’s your friendly reminder: spring isn’t your only chance to grow fresh greens, brassicas, and root crops.

If you missed the spring planting window—or simply want to keep the harvest going—now is your second chance.

Late summer is the time to start planting for a fall harvest:

🥬 Kale, lettuce & spinach
🥦 Broccoli, cabbage & other brassicas
🥕 Carrots, beets & radishes

Spring planting gives us summer abundance. Late-summer planting keeps the garden producing well into fall.

Cooler days are coming. Make sure your garden is ready for them.

Need help planning what to plant, where to plant it, or how to make your garden more productive? Reach out to schedule a garden consultation.

Plant beauty. Grow legacy. Taste abundance.

08/16/2026

Hi — I'm Edil. If you're new here, or it's just been a while, here's the short version of why I do this.

I grew up close to nature. Food came from the ground, not the store — it was just normal to know what was growing and when it was ready to eat.
When I moved here, something struck me. Yard after yard, all around Chester County and the Main Line — beautiful space, completely underused. Families with land right outside their door, and almost none of it growing anything.

So I started Backyard Orchard Design.

Not to sell trees. To help people turn their yards into something that grows food, looks incredible, and gets better every single year it's in the ground.
I design it. I install it. I stick around after — because a fruit tree isn't a one-time purchase, it's a relationship with your land that pays you back for decades.

If we haven't met yet: I'm based in Phoenixville, working with homeowners across Chester County and the Main Line who want their yard to actually do something. Beautiful and productive were never supposed to be a trade-off.

Plant beauty. Grow legacy. Taste abundance. 🍎

Fall is actually one of the best times to plant — the soil's still warm, the air's cooling off, and the trees get a head start on roots before spring ever arrives.

So tell me — has your yard been sitting there with untapped potential, or have you already got fruit trees in the ground?

https://backyard-orchard.com/

05/27/2026

You don't need an acre.

You don't need a farm.

You need a plan.

I've designed orchards in 20-foot side yards, strip beds between a fence and a patio, and corner lots homeowners thought were useless.

Dwarf apple trees stay under 10 feet. Semi-dwarf pears fit beautifully in a 12-foot border. Plant two within 50 feet of each other and they cross-pollinate. Plant three and a family of four has more fruit than they can eat in a season.

What most people picture when they hear "orchard" is rows of full-size trees in an open field. That's not what I design.

I work with the yard in front of me — its sun, its soil, its shape — and find the right trees for that specific space.

Most yards have more potential than people realize.

What's your situation — small lot, big lot, or somewhere in between?

05/24/2026

Spring planting is closed.

What got in the ground this season is what you've got. The yards that thrived had a plan. The ones still struggling didn't.

That gap — design vs. guess — is the whole game.

Fall consult slots just opened, and I'll be honest: this window fills fast. Fall installs need design in summer, sourcing in August, ground prep in September. The trees don't wait. Neither does the schedule.

After a few years of doing this, the pattern is clear:
The yard isn't the problem. The plants aren't the problem. The missing plan is.

Where the sun falls in July decides whether your apple tree thrives or sulks. Where water pools after a storm decides whether your blueberries make it past year two. None of that gets figured out at the nursery.

Fall planting gives the trees a head start before next summer's heat. But only if the design happens now — not in October when the trees show up.

Limited slots. First come, first scheduled.

https://backyard-orchard.com/services%26pricing

05/16/2026

Most homeowners who come to me for a consultation say the same thing:
"I've been researching for months but I still don't know where to start."

That's not a knowledge problem. It's a context problem.

General advice — articles, YouTube videos, gardening forums — is written for everyone. Which means it fits no one perfectly.
Your yard has a specific sun pattern. A specific soil type. A specific drainage situation. A specific microclimate.

The information that works for someone in zone 7 with clay soil and full sun is different from what works for your shaded corner lot with sandy loam.

This is why site-specific design matters so much more than general best practices.

The homeowners who get real results aren't the ones who research the longest. They're the ones who stop generalizing and start designing for their specific space.

If you've been going in circles on this — that's the thing to fix first.

Every productive orchard I've designed started with one question: what does this specific yard actually support?

What's the biggest uncertainty you're running into right now?

05/11/2026

Join me this Friday, May 15 at 7 PM for the premiere of The Gardener!
I’ll be there with a table before the movie, talking all things fruit trees, orchard design, and edible landscapes.

You’ll also have a chance to enter a raffle to win an onsite orchard consultation.

If you’ve ever thought about transforming your yard into something more beautiful, productive, and alive — come say hello. Hope to see you there!