RE: 'Nuptial Trees'

Loquats seem to be in every 3rd backyard here in San
Francisco, especially in dense neighborhoods like
Chinatown, and they tend to ripen in May-June. And
they get very little heat - just very mild winters.
-Jason

--- Carol Joynson <CarolJ@minimed.com> wrote:
> In Southern California (downtown L.A., actually) the
> loquats are trying hard
> to color up in a dampish, cold (nighttimes in the
> 40s, weep for us) spring.
> Perhaps within the month we'll have ripe fruit - a
> day or two after that the
> feral parrots will have eaten everything we don't
> snatch.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Longville [t*@eddy.u-net.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 7:54 AM
> To: 
> Subject: 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
> 


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