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I’m an inlander
It
occurred to me that, so far, the planning and establishing of our
Grabov Rat garden was driven more by farming logic than aesthetic
principles. Maybe it is because we were in a hurry to plant trees
and evergreen bushes, they take time to grow (and we would like to
harvest them!), and we’ll introduce some lovely and fragrant
annuals every year, eventually. Maybe, well, okay, we were very
enthusiastic on our first figs (five fruits on two out of three
fig trees this summer!) and I was really sorry to leave unripened
ziziphus fruits in mid-September. Our Zizyphus jujuba [Croatian:
žižula or čičindarica] looks
very prosperous in its first year after planting, so some locals
say (see the photo on the right).
We’ve
planted the ziziphus tree because of my wife’s underlying
nature, she is a Dalmatian - I’m an inlander of very limited
knowledge on Mediterranean fruits and plants in general. Of
course, I have to admit that I never tasted an ziziphus fruit.
Never before last Saturday, that is: during our visit to Santa
Cruz, California we bought some fruits and vegetables on the
farmers market there, ziziphus among them (see the photo below).
In
a way, that fulfills the proverb: Harvest comes not every day,
through it comes every year.
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