Showing posts with label Japanese persimmons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japanese persimmons. Show all posts

Thursday, 29 January 2015

Signs of spring

Even though it's just at the end of January, there are signs of spring to come. Buds swelling, bluebirds and robins flocking, songs beginning.I saw a group of 8 Great Blue Herons last week on my morning walk along the dikes above Lake Hartwell.  Most unusual, as normally I'd just see one, or two. On...

Tuesday, 2 December 2014

Japanese persimmons

I should have persimmons to harvest about now, but don't, thanks to some sort of voracious herbivore (the fruits would have been VERY astringent when they disappeared.The small tree that had produced them came with us to the Piedmont over twenty years ago.  I've written about that journey and its...