[Leica] Fall Colors: The sad history of our fig tree

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Beautiful light on your fig leaves!  Good luck on getting figs, too.  We
have 8 fig bushes at the farm and this year we had so many figs I couldn't
can, dry or preserve all of them.  The bees and the birds helped themselves
to most of the figs on one of our bushes that is the size of a small house.
 There are 3 varieties of figs here, but no white ones.  I love figs in
every way but especially ripe and warm, right off the tree.

Tina


On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 5:18 AM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:

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> We bought a house in Palo Alto for $29,000 (hate us) around 1965. I think
> the house was built around 1922, and the fig tree in the back yard was
> probably equally old. We got beautiful white figs from it, that is, the
> ones the birds left us.
>
> The only really smart financial thing we ever did was not to sell the
> house when we relocated to England for a few years?-turned out to be eight
> years?but rented it. Our first tenants complained that the tree trunk
> looked kind of rotted, they had a young child, and were afraid the tree
> might come down. Asked for permission to chop it down. Permission granted.
>
> When we returned to our house, we found that the stump of the tree was
> very much alive and was sprouting some branches. Eventually, it became a
> new tree. Because of language difficultiesI? assume that?-our gardener
> chopped down the tree when he had actually been asked to prune it. I wanted
> to kill him.
>
> Ultimately, following his advice, we let it sprout new shoots, picked the
> best one to be the new tree trunk, and severed the others. In time we even
> got a few figs out of the tree. Then, this year, the gardener and my wife
> concluded that it needed to be nicely shaped by further pruning. This so
> discouraged the tree that it produced nary a fig. I guess those two decided
> that form was more important than function.
>
> I have hopes for next year.
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> Herbert Kanner
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> 650-326-8204
>
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