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Rusty Hinge 2 · 16-09-2008, 09:53 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

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from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:
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"Bob Hobden" writes:
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| We used to have an Apricot tree for very many year until it got
struck by
| lightning whilst we were on holiday. In all those years we only got two
| fruit! (and we live near the Thames)
| I hope you have a very protected and warm south facing spot for it and
| choose one of the modern varieties that have been bred for the cold
| conditions. (I think I've read somewhere they are mainly from Canada)

That is somewhat misleading. Apricots don't mind cold, in its place.
Hunza apricots come from a place which gets a LOT colder than the UK.
What such plants don't like is the winter wet, late frosts and cold
summers.

Hunza apricots are very different from yer domestic one - the stem looks
more like apple than anything else, and is altogether chunkier than your
rather fragile pinkish domesticated variety, and the leaves of the hunza
are apple-like too, thick, leathery, and if anything, slightly larger
and a tad broader, whereas the common-or-greengrocer apricot has
altogether daintier leaves which are cuspidate - almost aristate.

The stones are half the size, too. Want some? I've still got half a bag
of uneaten hunzas.

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Rusty
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