(Eriobotrya japonica, Japanese or Chinese plum)Is it still true that there are more trees than stars in the Milky Way? When the neighbor with a garden full of brown-eyed-Susans, bluebells,and a giant loquat was transfered to an assistedliving facility i… | By Luisa A. Igloria on September 24, 2024 | (Eriobotrya japonica, Japanese or Chinese plum)
Is it still true that there are more trees than stars in the Milky Way? When the neighbor with a garden full of brown-eyed-Susans, bluebells, and a giant loquat was transfered to an assisted living facility in Richmond, the people who bought her house lost no time changing the "landscaping." They cut down the loquat tree, whose boughs had bent low with sweet yellow fruit from late spring to early summer, then cleared all the roses to build a driveway. As he worked with his cultivator and clippers, the man liked to sing at the top of his lungs as though he was rehearsing for an opera part he would not get; we could hear him through closed windows. His wife, her ponytail sticking out the backstrap of a baseball cap, collected the plant debris in her arms. Loquat flowers are small, less than an inch in diameter, with five creamy petals like the arms of a star. When they begin to bloom in clusters, even in late winter, they exude a sweet, mellow fragrance. Think of a sky full of them, a whole canopy of scent, their faint flickering enough to make you swoon. | | | |
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