Name: Daisy I Reno, Nv (Zone 6b) Not all who wander are lost
The Biblical Broom Tree is Retama raetam, more a shrub than a tree. So really no shade at all. Maybe people were shorter 2000 years ago. Maybe an olive tree; you could sit under an olive tree.
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and proclaiming...."WOW What a Ride!!" -Mark Frost
President: Orchid Society of Northern Nevada
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