Westerns Growing up in the ’50s and ’60s , Westerns were television staples… Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Rawhide, The Lone Ranger, Rin Tin Tin, and many more that I have forgotten. There were too many western movies for me to begin to count… Broken Arrow, The Gunfighter, High Noon, etc. Invariably, the cowboy hero gets lost or […]
Entries Tagged as 'Fruit Trees'
NOT Crawling Through the Desert Looking for Water
December 20th, 2012 8 Comments
Tags: cactus · cactus flowers · cactus fruit · Westerns
History of Wilmot Yard
December 10th, 2012 5 Comments
Really Old Plants and Trees When I posted the bougainvillea story last week, I mentioned the ‘old lady’ of my yard… a magenta bougainvillea about 80 years old. Magenta Bougainvillea It got me to thinking about the other plants and trees that were in this yard 40 years ago and the ones that are still […]
Tags: Alphonso mangos · avocado · Bougainvillea · calamondin · citrus canker · coconut palms · Florida wild green parrots · grapefruit · Haden Mangos · Hurricane Francis · Hurricane Wilma · Indian mangos · key lime · lethal yellowing · naval orange · Royal palms · sapodilla · Surinam Cherries · tangelo · tangerine
36-Year Old Mango Error
June 18th, 2012 5 Comments
House and Home First, a brief history of the place we’ve called home for 36 years…. it has a wonderful edible history. 1976 Our house was built in 1937, and I am guessing that most of the fruit trees were planted when the house was built. We bought the house in 1976, so the trees […]
Tags: Alphonso mangos · Haden Mangos · Indian mangos · Mangos · Pine Island Nursery
