Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
(most snipped)


The structure of that design is to have a frame and then have an interior
of a theme which in this case is apricots with some pinnacle juniper
rising in their midsts.

Apricots are almost as pretty as amur maples in Autumn but the thing about
apricots is that they give that red foliage color throughout the spring
and summer months and amur maples are lucky to display red color for
more than 2 weeks before some strong winds blow the leaves away.

I first became acquanted with apricot tree in my 20s when I returned from
Australia to find my father having purchased a new home which had an
apricot tree in the backyard. It was a large and mature tree and I do not
remember it as pretty nor as ugly. Some claim that mature apricots become
gnarled and
ugly. Which certainly is not the case for young apricots. Perhaps my variety
of coldhardy apricots is nongnarly.

I do find that apricots have some trouble with the wind and that branches keep

breaking off.

Also, I have just about given up on sandcherry Prunus tomatosa if memory
serves me correctly. I have 3 rows of them and although they bloom and bear
fruit they seldom have enough fruit to be happy about. And they are so
spasmodic in health. They seem to do well one year and then many die the
next. So as the sandcherry dies I am not going to replant that area with
something different.

I have found that currants and gooseberries are vigorous where those
sandcherries are not. And that I get a huge crop of currants each year.
Trouble
with currants is that they are a pain to mow around.

Archimedes Plutonium,
whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots
of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies