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40 types of fruit on one tree
Sometimes the combination of art and nature is absolutely magical. Sam van aken has created a living fairytale tree that blooms in multiple colors and bears fruit for about 40 different types of fruit.The artist from the Syracuse University art Professor van aken has created hibridizarea a fruit tree which grows over 40 different types of stone, ranging from cherries and plums, and up to peaches, apricots and almonds.
Van aken, who grew up on a farm, bought the orchard in new York, which was under threat of closure. After purchasing the garden was saved many rare varieties of fruit. But the Professor did not stop there and decided to realize his dream: he began to experiment with hybridization of trees to create "Tree of 40 fruit".
In the end, there appeared a tree, which was successfully prischeplennaya many different types of fruit. Grafted branches not only successfully started to grow on the new tree, but they began to bear fruit. Now every spring "40 fruit" is an absolutely incredible mosaic of colorful flowers.
"First of all I planted that tree as a work of art,' said van aken in an interview. — I want "the Tree of forty colors" literally changed every day in a person's life. After all, when the tree unexpectedly blossoms in all the colors of the rainbow, or when you look at the different types of fruit hanging from its branches — it literally changes how a person perceives the world as a whole."
At the moment the artist has grown 16 is like a magic tree that can be seen throughout the country in museums, community centers and private collections. Van aken is currently working on plans for growing a small garden of his fantastic trees in new York. In the future Sam van aken hoped that these trees will be an ornament to any garden.
Source: www.ecobyt.ru/
Van aken, who grew up on a farm, bought the orchard in new York, which was under threat of closure. After purchasing the garden was saved many rare varieties of fruit. But the Professor did not stop there and decided to realize his dream: he began to experiment with hybridization of trees to create "Tree of 40 fruit".
In the end, there appeared a tree, which was successfully prischeplennaya many different types of fruit. Grafted branches not only successfully started to grow on the new tree, but they began to bear fruit. Now every spring "40 fruit" is an absolutely incredible mosaic of colorful flowers.
"First of all I planted that tree as a work of art,' said van aken in an interview. — I want "the Tree of forty colors" literally changed every day in a person's life. After all, when the tree unexpectedly blossoms in all the colors of the rainbow, or when you look at the different types of fruit hanging from its branches — it literally changes how a person perceives the world as a whole."
At the moment the artist has grown 16 is like a magic tree that can be seen throughout the country in museums, community centers and private collections. Van aken is currently working on plans for growing a small garden of his fantastic trees in new York. In the future Sam van aken hoped that these trees will be an ornament to any garden.
Source: www.ecobyt.ru/
