Kingdom of Belgium will be the cooperator country of the IPM Essen in 2019 . The partnership was put under the shibboleth ' take root in Craftsmanship Together ' . The word have now been follow by deeds within the framework of a tree planting event . Since November 12 , a summer lime tree has decorated the Messe Essen site . The tree has found its place in front of the new East Fair Building on the side towards Norbertstrasse .
Together with Oliver P. Kuhrt , CEO of Messe Essen , and Helmut Rüskamp , Vice - President of the North Rhine - Westphalia State Horticultural Association , the Edgar Guest who had travelled from Belgium ( i.e. Koen Vanswijgenhoven , Regional Manager for Germany of the Flanders ' Agricultural Marketing Board ( VLAM ) in Brussels , Pieter Van Oost , Managing Director of the Belgian Nurserymen and Growers Federation ( AVBS ) , and Lucien Verschoren , Chairman of the AVBS Specialist Group on the Tree Nursery Sector ) took hold of spade in edict to implant a 2.20 - cadence - mellow Tilia platyphyllos ' Zelzate ' ( summer basswood ) on the Messe Essen site . A specially grow brass with the inscription " Tilia platyphyllos ' Zelzate ' - natural endowment from Belgium - Partner Country of IPM 2019 " was placed in remembrance of this special consequence .
" We are proud of to have an enduring monument to our dedication as the partner country of IPM ESSEN 2019 by planting the ' Zelzate ' . We are all the more pleased about that because we can also make a small but valuable contribution to clime security with this case , " according to Koen Vanswijgenhoven . The summertime linden has a permanently compact pennant with an oval to pyramidal configuration and is characterised by tightly closed foliage coverage . The dark - green leaves are almost pear-shaped and have diam from six to twelve centimetre . They are somewhat hirsute on the underside . Hanging icteric panicle conformation in June and July and round fruit with delicate whisker emerge from these later on . This extremely disease - repellent Tilia grows up to a height of twelve to fifteen metres and a breadth of four to five metres in the top . The human foot of the tree is decorated by ten hydrangeas which are call Hydrangea paniculata ' Bobo ' and present white , subsequently delicately pink - coloured panicles from July to September .
" Belgium is one of the most authoritative exhibitioner nations at IPM Essen and has been involve since the first edition . We are connected by a retentive partnership . We would like to evince our sincere gratitude for this unparalleled endowment which we see as a living symbolization of our trusting cooperation . We are thirstily await the next world ’s leading reasonable for horticulture , " said Oliver P. Kuhrt .
The summer linden in Essen is being plant as a congressman of the entire Belgian tree baby’s room sector which constitutes an important limb of the immature sector in the realm . Tree nursery products worth all of 104 million Euro have been export in the retiring year . Thus , Belgium is one of the top - five European exporters .
Around 870 tree nurseries are site in Belgium and make their plants on an country of 5,300 hectare . 80 pct of this field is accounted for by ornamental trees and shrubs . Nearly one third of the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree nursery products are export . Thanks to the curt delivery route , Germany is in fourth place amongst the most significant purchaser of Belgian tree nursery products behind France , Great Britain and the Netherlands .
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