What do you mean by this Clark? We are also on a windy hill and I thought that wind would be a downside for flowers to freeze.
about 45 feet tall seckel pear trees, NO REGRETS lol
Seriously though they were planted by my wifes grandfather. Some others are smaller like 25-30 feet and produce bigger fruits that i really enjoy in summer, they fall and I collect them, sometimes the fox beat me to them but there are plenty for us both. Deer are not such a problem in Europe because they are smaller and fewer but we still put up a deer fences.
I like to have big trees and let the fruits fall when it works out… I planted Quince A rootstock pears at 12 feet and standard seedling pears at 24 foot spacing in different orchard blocks.
I have some pole pruning tools I like but Euro sourced websites, if anyone is interested say so and i’ll look for the links.