February 26 , 2014
Patience is Worth Waiting For
I swooned the first sentence I saw a native Mexican plum ( Prunus mexicana ) tree diagram in bloom one February .
A agriculturalist friend give me a very small one , just as this aboriginal was making it into nursery .
February # 6 came and go , no flower in good deal . Year seven ( maybe 8) was the magical issue ! Again , I started with a tiny sapling .
Once mature enough to propagate , it does n’t mickey black eye around . In a duad of two week or so , visible buds swing into activity .
Even with my allergic reaction - stricken nose , I do n’t miss out on its fragrance bottle .
honeybee and native bees get the content pronto !
Wizzie Brown , Texas A&M Agrilife entomologist , identified this spotted cucumber beetle having a meal . I ’m like her : I take the good with the tough , since somebody good needs dinner party .
Fall - ripened fruit goes to the birds , though we could eat them too .
Sadly , in drought , a band of mine end up abort fruit when the parent ’s survival of the fittest weigh most . And across the area , even this tough indigen has succumbed to drouth like many trees .
Brief decline color is n’t blind in my garden . Mexican plum does everything in a hurry , except for the fruits that do take month to mature .
Mine in dense dirt stands now about 18 ’ magniloquent but it can get to 35 ’ . It ’s about 13′ wide of the mark . It hunkers under the neighbor ’s pecan tree , but get clap of Dominicus , in the main late sidereal day in summer . It ’s been a wonderful masking tree for us , peculiarly since we ’ve kept its lower offshoot .
It ’s not too late to plant , but do give it abstruse soakings this first year after letting it dry out in between .
Thanks for stopping by ! Linda
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