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First blooms, then the leafy photosynthetic factories
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Peach trunk breakthrough
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A posey adorns each gnarly branch
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Ferocious fractal fecundity
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Sweet dreams are made of this...
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Citrus and apricot - a winning combination for a sauce with poultry
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We're hoping for a bumper crop of bloodoranges next season (the stingy tree only offered a single desiccated fruit last season)
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Perhaps we should install the patron saint of fruit trees in our roof line niche to ensure the makings of apricot jam come summer
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Seasons of citrus tree fecundity often overlap
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Fruiting exuberance ready for harvest
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The new spring crop emerges
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An out of season blossom remains from our trailing rose
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A riot of color and structure create a macro still life
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The gopher plant's beautiful stamens and pollen cases appear
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Euphorbia and friends
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An early gerannium blossom cluster
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The immortal (?) chocolate mint we've shepherded for as long as we've been a couple
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Tubac's Shelby's Restaurant does a capital chicken dish with lavendar
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Walkway miniature rose already flourishing
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Somewhere there's a hive of bees making lavendar honey
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Russian sage bed recovering
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Pomegranate bark color and texture study - 3
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Pomegranate bark color and texture study - 1
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Pomegranate bark color and texture study - 2
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Last year's unharvested pomegranates remains
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The pomegranate trunks molting like a snake skin
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First palm bloom stalk sighted
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Front courtyard still somewhat barren
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Almost missed this first spring 2015 backyard cactus bloom
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The desert willow is just beginning to bloom