Visitors can see a unique variety of around 250 species: native old and partly introduced new species of berries, fruit, nuts, aromatic shrubs, herbs and flowers that are unknown in our latitudes. Alpine cloudberries grow alongside quinces, raspberries and medlars. Chinese dates flourish alongside spilling trees and European sagebrush. Nanking cherries ripen in early summer, followed by Indian bananas and frost-hardy persimmon in late autumn.
Strawberries such as the well-known ‘Mieze Schindler’, the white pineapple and the Orient strawberry, the red Safner raspberry from Graubünden, the black Cassis from le Brassus or the blackcurrant, ‘noir de Bourgogne’, can also be tasted.
Along the monastery walls, there is a unique Alpine espalier pear collection.
Taste testing the fruit in the Edible Landscape is encouraged. Let yourself be surprised by new flavours.
Together with ProSpecieRara and FRUCTUS, numerous fruit pruning, pear trellising, herb or berry courses are offered here for gardening professionals, allotment gardeners or even professional chefs.
