old greenhouse

I've been asked to take down an old-ish greenhouse as the current owners have no use for it, and want to extend the patio area. The question is, there's an espaliered tree in there - I think an almond, but someone else thought it was a peach - either way - any advice on what we do with it? I'd hate to kill it! There's a vine too. I think my only option is to take cuttings and reproduce it, as I think I'll have to remove it. It's not pretty enough to be a tree - even as an espalier it's pretty ugly - not been well done, and neglected for some time.
Any thoughts, people? The blossom is gorgeous just now! :D

 

Vine has a really deep taproot and won't take well to being moved. Cuttings are easy though or you could do what I did last year and let a non fruiting runner trail a bit then thread it up through the bottom of an 8" pot (I used a plastic pot and made a large hole in the centre with a pair of scissors). Placed 1/2" of gravel in the bottom and added compost, then sat it on the staging and treated it as a pot plant. Later in the year it was severed from the parent and has just started to produce leaf.

It's a form of air layering without the hassle

There's also a thread about peach trees here

 

I would guess its a peach rather than an almond.
Either way I'm not sure if you would get usable fruit up in your neck of the woods without greenhouse protection, likewise the grapevine.
So unless you have another greenhouse for them I think it might be best to let them go.
They would both probably survive OK without protection, its just a matter of wether it worth it or not.

 

Thanks both!
Yes Frogesque, I think that's the flower all right. I had seen the thread, but had forgotten about it - probably onset of senile dementia!! :D I'd like to try the "easy air-layering" technique, but I don't know how well it'll work when it's in someone else's garden, and I can't keep an eye on it more often than weekly... Well, it's certainly worth a try!

Pete - re whether it's worth it or not - exactly!! The probable peach really isn't all that nice after the years of neglect, even if the flowers are. As for the grape-vine, I know when I was a kid, my Dad (in Hamilton, west side of Scotland, 11 miles south of Glasgow) had a vine where the roots were outside the greenhouse, but the main vine inside. It fruited very well, generally on alternate years. I had several vines outside in Hemel - but the climate is noticeable different, I'd agree.

I think as the customers want to extend the patio, they're not going to want to try to keep the 2 plants - and there's not much chance of them surviving a move - such a pity.
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