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Apricot blossoms!
Posted on 12-Mar-2007
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One of the biggest attractions of our garden is the old apricot tree in the backyard. Our neighborhood used to be part of one the (formerly) many apricot orchards in the Santa Clara Valley. This thirty-plus (forty-plus?) year old tree is one the few sad, beautiful reminders of that era. ...
Photos of the garden pond
Posted on 17-Jan-2007
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Finally uploaded photographs documenting the pond Simon installed in the backyard. The process started in early 2003, and took well over a year for plants to become established. We need to replace some of the plants (the Japanese maple couldn't tolerate the heat), but we now have lovely gold fines ...