figs

Of Leaves and Fruit

In-ground figs, pawpaw, persimmon, citrus, plum, cherry, elderberry. A few fig trunks survived the mild winter, though most died back to ground level, unprotected.

Robust Mt Etna type fig leaves:

Flying Dragon hardy lemon citrus – a cold hardy marvel to zone 5:

Persimmon with a few blossoms, Nanking cherry holding fruit through the first week of June, beach plum and fruit slowly developing, black elderberry in full bloom and setting fruit on the earliest varieties, draping pawpaw leaves hiding its fruit set:

The mighty pawpaw:

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