[Pil-pc-oceania] In praise of loquats

[David Arnold]

In a year when a unusually heavy Spring frost over Northern Victoria on
September 18 wiped out most of the Goulburn Valley's stone fruit crop, and
my stone fruit also, I am appreciating my couple of trees of loquats here
very much.

Loquats flower in winter and can lose their flowers to frost at that time,
but they withstood the Spring frost.  So this year while I can't look
forward to the apricots, peaches and nectarines, european and asian plums
that I would usually be watching develop with interest at this time, I can
eat loquats.

My Japanese visitor tells me they are common in the shops there.  They call
them 'Biwa'.

David


David Arnold
Permaculture Designer
4446 Murchison Rd
Violet Town VIC AUS 3669
03 5798 1679
arnold.vt at gmail.com
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