She Kept A Parrot
A Journal For Charlie
Return of the Pygmies
After the winter freezes, I feared that I had lost the Pygmy Date Palms
When the ice covered the leaves, I thought they would surely die
I have six of them in the garden and around the house
They are my favorite trees
With the exception of the Fan Palms, of course
Romero convinced me that it was necessary to trim the lower fronds
He removed as many as twelve on some of the trees
Their bearded trunks were suddenly exposed
The garden looked barren to me
I could see everything from my perch on the porch
And that took some getting used to
Even Romero was not certain that the Pygmies would survive
We have to wait to see if the center fronds die,
He said, much to my consternation
Well, they didn’t die
They began to grow new fronds in the centers of the tree tops
And
They produced the biggest crop of tiny dates ever!
Do you remember that I tried to convince you
To taste one of them?
🙂
