Luxembourg Gardens

Tortured trees

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In the Luxembourg Gardens          (at the south end) are two curiosities                      (1) an apple and pear garden (behind high fences and difficult to photograph) .. trees are trained in a special way called ‘palmette Verrier’, in which the trees are pruned and shaped into 19 branches in a horizontal plane. They almost look more like grape vines than fruit trees. They take 50 years to form                                                       (2) a centre for bee keeping on the site of the Society of Apiculture in 1866 which was first developed in 1856. It has an almost Japanese garden look to it .