RE: Childhood plant memories

Heh...a friend of mine did that once with our olives! She was Chief
Grape-In-The-Face for days.

This is a great thread! I remember running around the yard arguing with my
Iowan cousins about the correct pronunciation of apricot (while said juice
ran down our chins). The smooth climbable limbs of the giant fig tree and
the much less climbable pepper tree (Schinus molle) with its rough bark and
sticky sap. The hideout under the weeping limbs of a bottlebrush
(Callistemon). The artichoke that never produced tasty artichokes, but had
lovely flowers. In kindergarten, we made wreaths covered in deodar cedar
cone rosettes.

Oh, and we had naked ladies in our garden, too. Who didn't?! We also had oak
root fungus that killed the apricot trees and seedlings and sprouts from the
neighbor's Ailanthus trees (ugh!!!).

Thanks for stirring up the memories!
Cheryl
(born and raised and still living in the San Francisco bay area)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-medit-plants@ucdavis.edu 
> [o*@ucdavis.edu] On Behalf Of N Sterman
> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 8:24 PM
> To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: Re: Childhood plant memories
> 
> 
> Hi Jan,
> 
> I remember being a very small child - four or younger - and painting  
> my face and my brothers' face with squished berries of the Eugenia.   
> They made a really great raspberry colored "paint" that 
> stayed for days.
> 
> We also piled the berries into pie tins and pretended they were pie.
> 
> Hadn't thought about that in years...
> 
> N
> 
> 
> 
>
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