Autumn is apple time! Crunchy, fresh, sweet, juicy, tangy, sour, firm, coarse-celled...biting into an apple is more than just eating fruit. From the large variety of apple varieties, we have selected two very special apple trees from our wide range of Lubera apple varieties: The variety 'Paradis® Werdenberg®' is already mature in August and its flavour changes over the course of the coming weeks! It becomes more and more fruity...
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Blurring the edible/ornamental divide with...
‘Growing your own’ has been an enduring trend in British gardening over the last few years. Whether it’s because of an interest in healthy food, a desire to protect and reconnect with the environment, or simply a need to reduce the food bills, more and more people are dabbling...
The History and Biology of the Fig: Man as...
I would now like to talk about "cultivation". Cultivation as what man does with nature and perhaps also only means to do. The fig has almost forced itself upon man; it has infiltrated his religious and sexual symbolism, yes, it has indeed superimposed human sexuality in the truest sense of...
A Fig Scandal in California
In the course of its long history, the fig has often been amusing amidst all the confusion that it caused with its different types of fruit and its complicated pollination biology. The most extreme case is the total failure of Californian fig cultivation in the 80s and 90s of the 19th...
Fruity Secrets of the Stone Age
Man v auroch [Image credit: Aurochs1 / Wikimedia Commons] I went back in time this summer, to learn a little about what our hunter-gatherer ancestors ate. In what became the British Isles, the last hunter-gatherers lived during the middle stone age, or Mesolithic, the period...
Blueberries and Huckleberries in the...
Berry season in Europe is well underway, also in the Western United States, where I vacationed for the past few weeks. Driving around in Oregon and Washington, it was hard not to notice the fresh fruit stands and I started focusing on the blueberries there. Most common in Oregon...
What Can Go Wrong With Raspberries?
A customer asked what he had done that was so wrong with his raspberries to make them die five weeks after he had planted them. This was our answer, with a wink: almost everything! The customer took it with good humour, especially, of course, because we sent him some...
Fruitful gardening
This is our common goal: That we can enjoy the fruits of gardening. Even if we sometimes come too late...
Bred and made in Switzerland
We breed and produce our plants in the Rhine valley, in Switzerland, in the middle of the Swiss Alps. That goes without saying that our plants are very resistant.
Markus Kobelt - founder and breeder of Lubera
This is how the well-known Swiss photographer Stöh Grünig photographed Markus Kobelt, the founder of Lubera. Markus is almost all covered up by his apple tree seedlings... Markus' passion is breeding new, better and more resistant fruit and berry plants. In the last 10 years, Lubera has bred and introduced more than 80 new varieties to the market. And there's no end in sight.
Lubera is different
Apples bloom white, Lubera Redloves® bloom red and pink. We see the beauty of the fruit plants and in our new selections we bring usefulness and ornamental aspects even closer together. Join us to explore exciting new garden plants: Lubera® Redloves®, Lubera® Direttissima®, Lubera® Fourberries, Lubera® Pointilla®, Lubera® Malini®, Lubera® Maloni®…
2000+ plants – for you
At Lubera it's not just about the fruit and berry garden, it's about the entire garden, and more precisely, about the mixed garden. We love the mix like in this garden example: Clematis, roses, perennials, kiwis, evergreens, conifers and a Prunus ‘Kanzan’ hiding on the far right. And we have all the plants that you need for your own mix!