Odds and Sods from Crete.....

I can almost taste those sun-warmed apricots!

 

We're going to Turkey, this year and we will be able to pick them off the trees. It's also a sort of ritual, you pick a couple of ripe Pomegranates off of a tree then you all sit under a shady spot , pull them apart and have a chat. As I said to you, roders, the Cretans and the Turks have got to be the most, naturally, friendly people in the world.

 

I think this is Araucaria Heterophylla (Norfolk Island Pine) a very spectacular architectual tree against the Cretan skyline.........I think LoL has them as well in Portugal as well.

 

A Fan Palm against the Cretan skyline...I know LoL has one of these and BM and TO....Dont know proper name.

 

Trachycarpus Fortunei ...could it be?

 

Evening, my dearest, and also to you miraflores.

Yes, I have a Norfolk Island Pine up on the deck, albeit very small (sort of like me) and that is one lovely photo of them. I got a nice pic of one when we went to Spain on Saturday (but the pic was in Portugal).

The second one I've been told is a Washingtonia fillifera, by BM and pete has confirmed this, so be it ... to you guys ...

 

I'll give it one more try...
washingtonia robusta (I also had a suggestion from pretty reliable source...)