@plantscience It's hard for me to think which was the very first plant to catch my eye, but I can say which is the first plant I remember being enthralled with: A 'Newtown Pippin' apple planted in the backyard of a house we were temporarily staying in for a year. The yard also had a FANTASTIC peach tree that I don't know the ID of and 'Hachiya' persimmons hanging over from a neighbor. It was the first time I'd ever tasted tree-ripened fruit and I was bowled over. #Planticipation#FruitToot
@plantscience Being raised in CA, we had access to pretty good produce, but there was still a difference in taste and quality between what you could get ripe off a tree vs what could be shipped to markets in the 1970s (let alone now). #Planticipation#FruitToot