I think Transparent Pyrrol Orange was developed specifically to paint persimmons.
persimmons
Tag: fruit
tangerines
Water-solube wax pastels and watercolour.
free fruit
Nice of our neighbours to even supply bags for the oranges.
Symphytum officinale
I love checking out people’s gardens when I walk around the town, and I’m particularly attracted to riotous native shrubbery. If the owners are out working in the yard, I call out my compliments and stop to chat if they’re amenable. Today I met Elaine and Chet; they were really friendly and even dug up some comfrey for me to take home and plant. I’ve been wanting to grow it, but I never see it in nurseries, so when I spied their abundance, I wasn’t shy about asking for some.
Later in the afternoon our next-door-neighbour came over with more apricots from her tree. It’s starting to feel like we live here 😊
gleaning
We never give Bodie human food, but sometimes she helps herself to garden crops. She’s particularly fond of strawberry guavas.
comparison study
The tropical/subtropical fruit that Australians call pawpaw (Carica papaya) is known as papaya in the US. Americans have their own pawpaw (or papaw)—Asimina triloba—a completely different species, native to the eastern United States and southern Ontario, Canada.
Interestingly, though we’re Australian, the traditional folk song my mother taught me as a child—“Pick ‘em up pawpaws, put ‘em in your pocket, way down yonder in the pawpaw patch”—is of American origin. The ‘patch’ refers to Asimina triloba‘s characteristic patch-forming clonal growth habit. And presumably the fruit that one picks up has fallen to the ground, and one’s apron pocket is roomy.
I’d like to try American pawpaw. I think custard apples are delicious, so I’m sure I’d like them.
Psidium guajava
I’ve never grown common guavas—this tree is in my MIL’s yard—so I don’t know if this growth pattern is normal. I don’t see it on any of the images that a quick search pulls up. Part of the flower (a sepal?) persists as the fruit grows, forming a tough ”hood”. Looking at variously-sized fruits on the tree, it seems that this hood stays the same size as the fruit enlarges. Presumably it eventually falls off. What is the purpose of this phenomenon? Is it unique to this tree?
fun times in the garden
Option 4: remove the plants to make space for something that rodents don’t like to eat. Kale?
babies
We rarely get more than a fig or two for ourselves, but this year there’s quite a few on the tree, so maybe the birds will share more?
passiflora
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