If you stroll through the residential area on the Klosteranger, you will discover little signs on the young trees.
What's it all about?
We went on a search for clues.
Weyarn
- What is growing there?
Nina Frare (58) and other members of the community gardening working group ensured that the fruit trees on the Weyarner Klosteranger will not only hopefully bear a lot of fruit at some point, but also impart knowledge.
We asked what the "tree signage" was all about.
Ms. Frare, what can you read on the labels?
On the one hand, which fruit tree it is, and then the variety, as far as we knew.
The variety is not yet to be read on all signs.
There was once a plan of which tree should go where on the site, but it was not fully adhered to when planting.
The signage can certainly still be completed.
Yes, we want to do that in all cases.
Now some of the trees are still very young.
But when they bear fruit, I hope that someone will be found who will recognize the varieties.
Are there special types of fruit trees that have been planted?
I assume that these are varieties that are native to the region, can cope well with the climate and have a certain resistance to diseases.
Quest (editor's note: developer of the residential project) selected the varieties.
You have been advised by a horticulturist.
Can you tell us a few names?
When it comes to apples, there are the varieties “Jakob Fischer”, “Flamed Cardinal” and “Sternapi”, which really has star-shaped apples.
We have “Schöneberger” and “Früh von Trevoux” pears.
And then house plums.
Incidentally, the fruit belongs to all Weyarners.
When the time comes, everyone can pick something.
You have completed further training to become a meadow orchard guide.
This is a course that I attended one weekend at the Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture in Freising.
I could now offer tours for school classes or senior groups, for example, and bring them closer to the diversity of plants, insects and other animals in orchards.
Health was also an issue during the training.
For example, there are people who cannot tolerate the common apple varieties from the supermarket, but can eat the old varieties without any problems.
Unfortunately, such tours had to be canceled in 2020.
Yes, that's a shame.
But as soon as it works again, I will approach the schools.
The topic just has to fit into the curriculum.
But then maybe I will do the tours in an older orchard.
The trees on the Klosteranger are still very small.
