trees this time
Sep. 19th, 2005 05:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellenkushnerI'm in the home stretch of revisions on The Privilege of the Sword, and I need arboreal advice: can someone recommend a tree that buds early and is strong enough to bear the weight of a teenager?
I've used quince because I like the feel of it, but I have no idea when quince bud, or if they get big enough to climb.
So we had a brief dispute about which alley it was, and then we recognized the quince tree limb sticking out over the back wall of the house – it was definitely quince, I could tell, now that it was showing signs of budding [DO QUINCE BUD EARLY? DOES ANYTHING ELSE LARGISH?] – so we knew we were in the right place. We did clever things with the rope and the quince, and then it was really pretty easy for us to skimble up and over the wall with hardly any whitewash on our legs.
It was a smallish garden, nicely laid out with little stone paths running between bushes and herbs that had been cut back for the winter, and patches covered with straw that would probably be flowers or strawberries. The back room of the house had tall windows that gave onto the garden. The tall bushes against the wall gave us a perfect spot for hiding, and a perfect view of the room and its occupant.
This takes place around March, I guess. The climate is European, not New England: I've seen forsythia budding in Paris in mid-January, and English daffodils in full-bloom by April.
Thanks in advance for your help!
I've used quince because I like the feel of it, but I have no idea when quince bud, or if they get big enough to climb.
So we had a brief dispute about which alley it was, and then we recognized the quince tree limb sticking out over the back wall of the house – it was definitely quince, I could tell, now that it was showing signs of budding [DO QUINCE BUD EARLY? DOES ANYTHING ELSE LARGISH?] – so we knew we were in the right place. We did clever things with the rope and the quince, and then it was really pretty easy for us to skimble up and over the wall with hardly any whitewash on our legs.
It was a smallish garden, nicely laid out with little stone paths running between bushes and herbs that had been cut back for the winter, and patches covered with straw that would probably be flowers or strawberries. The back room of the house had tall windows that gave onto the garden. The tall bushes against the wall gave us a perfect spot for hiding, and a perfect view of the room and its occupant.
This takes place around March, I guess. The climate is European, not New England: I've seen forsythia budding in Paris in mid-January, and English daffodils in full-bloom by April.
Thanks in advance for your help!