Ok, apparently US #Marines are #superstitious about #apricots: https://web.archive.org/web/20170902141914/http://www.26thmeu.marines.mil/News/News-Article-Display/Article/516281/apricots-aavs-no-happy-pair/

Apricot, apple, pear, and red currant buds.

Apricot tree vs wall and pavement-
#Nature #Apricots #Plants #Trees #Civilization

This is where I live. It's still apricot season for another week or so. We saw this tree on a bike ride Saturday. It's growing between the hike and bike trail and a broad, dry arroyo, but I can imagine it in someone's yard, long ago, before developers decided it was a good spot and bought the land.
Note the apricots still in the tree, especially in the top right.
#Apricots #FruitTrees #FreeFood #Nature #Bounty

It's that time of year again.
#Apricots #FruitTrees #Gardening #Nature

Sticky with jam, jam I am
#royalblenheim #apricots

Blenheim #apricots at their peak #stonefruit #canning #jam

November 30, 1875 
#OTD Frank Meyer, Dutch-American #Plant Explorer, is born.

Frank's introduced 2,500 new plants, including the beautiful #Korean #Lilac, #Apricots, Wild #Pears, #Ginkgo, and #Persimmons.

The Meyer #Lemon was named in his honor. Frank found it growing in the doorway of a family home in #Peking. The Lemon is thought to be a hybrid of a standard lemon and #Mandarin #Orange.