{"id":4245,"date":"2021-02-18T15:47:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T14:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/espalier.org\/espalier-trained-fruit-locations\/castle-gaasbeek\/"},"modified":"2021-02-18T15:47:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T14:47:43","slug":"castle-gaasbeek","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/espalier.org\/en\/espalier-trained-fruit-locations\/castle-gaasbeek\/","title":{"rendered":"Castle Gaasbeek"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Fruit walls of Gaasbeek Castle display renowned past<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Fruit walls in the historic Museum Garden of Gaasbeek Castle exude the atmosphere from the heyday of espalier fruit cultivation. From the mid-19th<\/sup> century to the mid-20th <\/sup>century, the Belgians mastered the cultivation of trained fruit trees like no other country. Their craftsmanship was renowned in the world. <\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Today, the Museum Garden<\/strong> of Gaasbeek Castle<\/strong> houses one of the largest and most extensive collections of espalier trained fruit trees. Their showpieces include a berceau, a straight fruit wall with a series of circular palmettes and many others.<\/p>\n

Admittedly, trees are not as old as in Le Potager<\/a> (Versailles), but they are in perfect condition and honour ancient skills like nowwhere else. It shows this garden is maintained by people with great devotion, timeless effort and specialist know-how. Just like in the old days. Every tree is properly labeled with a cultivar name and pruned with meticulous attention. Information panels provide anecdotes and interesting facts, about cultivation practices, former arboriculturists, cultivar properties, etc. Straight boxwood hedges and Corten steel edges appeal to the formal character of the trained fruit trees.<\/p>\n

In the Museum Garden (1.5 hectares) of Gaasbeek Castle you can also view:<\/p>\n