Part of the Craft Skills for Garden Conservation, an Erasmus+ funded project.
The all day-webinar about Trained Fruit was hosted by PlantNetwork and had these topics:
- The importance of wall fruit in the history of kitchen gardens
- Exploiting microclimates for a wide range of fruit: how a new design utilises historic knowledge to react to affects of climate change
- Fruit growing as an art form
- Walls, wires, tags and trellises
- Choice of cultivars and rootstocks. Pruning Lorette v. modified Lorette
- Indoor trained fruit: peaches, grapes and figs
- Fruit growing in Community settings: training people to train fruit
Webinar programme
Speakers
Susan Campbell, Walled Kitchen Garden Network
Andy Lewis, The Newt, Somerset
Hilary Theaker, Hampton Court
Ceridwen Davies, Dyffryn Gardens, National Trust
Jim Arbury, RHS Horticultural Specialist, Wisley Gardens
Mick Brown Production Garden Manager and team, Chatsworth Gardens
Hervé Mauclère, Yvette Vallée Community Orchard