In Normandy, the spectacle of spring flowering is offered to visitors: hundreds of pear trees from the Domfrontais orchards. France Télévisions invites you to skim over them. An ephemeral landscape, which attracts many curious people every year at the same time.
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Seen from above, all the poetry of spring is visible. The white flowers of the pear trees on the tender grass of the orchards: “It’s magnificent! I love this season every year,” confides an amateur photographer. Precious images that must be captured during flowering, just a few days.
From a human perspective, it is probably also the most beautiful season to discover Normandy: “We are really in a country […] Magnificent. The Normandy countryside has remained a little as it has always been. We see the hedges, we see the apple trees, the pear trees, it’s magnificent,” rejoices a walker.
“In an orchard like this, you have about fifteen varieties despite everything, because there are old trees that have been there for 100 or 200 years,” explains Frédéric Pacory, producer of perry, the famous pear cider. He planted most of these trees himself. And this year, the harvest promises to be exceptional.
“Look, there, on a handful, I have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven flowers. So, it’s almost too much. Okay, so not everything will fertilize. Not all pears will get bigger. But to have a good perry, there must be one in two, one in three which fertilizes,” specifies the producer.
A single tree can yield up to a ton of pears. Within ten days, the white petals will fall and the fruits will begin to grow until they are harvested at the end of summer.
Originally published at Almouwatin.com
