Yes, clearly I am clutching at straws here to find good things to talk about!
I've had a busy day, what with meeting the bank manager, helping with a hospital visit, taking details of a potential client, driving around a lot and being shouted at by cats. The weather has been singularly horrid. None of these things make for a good blog. So I have rummaged around in the computer vaults to find something sunny from Guadeloupe and have decided upon my favourite kind of palm tree. Well I call it a palm tree, but I'll bet biologists will have other views. Here's the science bit courtesy of the Botanical Gardens of Deshaies about the Travellers Tree.
So, not native, but found all over the place there. Here are a couple of young ones. These are already taller than us, and rather nice and elegant to my mind.
The apartment complex we stayed at had a few in their grounds, that were rather bigger, so that the shield-like apex of the leaves is at face level. These are a nice, liveable with size.
But here is a salutary lesson, in that like all trees, they get big and probably too big for their space - think any leylandii hedge, think oak tree, think walnut tree. This monster dominated part of the Botanical Gardens - very beautiful, but I would suggest quite vulnerable to strong winds.
I'll do better tomorrow, I promise!
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