Re: 'Nuptial Trees'
Cali - I like the cypress idea. And a lot more 'poetic' than anything
we can offer in England. Here, it sometimes feels as though every
father in the land must have opted for birth-gifts of a dozen
Cupressus leylandii - and not just for daughters, but for sons as
well, plus a horde of family pets!
I don't think I've ever seen loquat in fruit so my info was purely
book info. I've checked on the RHS journal item and Henry Cocker
definitely says *late* summer. Difference between the climates of
Greece and Northern Italy?? Seems a bit unlikely but it's the only
theory I can come up with - and Mr C. presumably knew when the trees
in his part of the world fruited.
'Loquat or nespole,' says Mr Cocker, botanically Eriobotrya japonica:
ie, we're not dealing with a confusion-of-common-names? I've never
come across 'nespole.' Italian? Meaning?
Tim on the Solway Firth, Cumbria, UK, where winter is reluctantly
giving way to a wan and raw pseudo-Spring
Tim Longville
