meadow orchard in breckenheim. the pfingstbornanlage ( pfingstborn park ) in breckenheim is a beautiful place to be in the spring, obviously because the fruit trees are in full bloom! apple, pear, mirabelles, cherries, haw- & blackthorn, plums & prune trees all show themselves in their best attire! meadow orchards are a traditional form of pomiculture, they were constructed in a way to offer a large variety of fruit crops and create agriculturally & ecologically valuable habitats. these landscape forms are not very numerous anymore, in fact, the spreading of residential areas, and the constant building of infrastructure like streets, train tracks etc. is continiously endangering these beautiful meadows. add to that the ignorance of people who 'only buy fruit in the supermarket because the quality is better' ( suck my ass ) and you have another reason why these orchards are declining. but not all is bad, in more recent years some people have rediscovered fr...
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