“That’s a perfect example of how you don’t want to do it,” he said as we stood in my personal Garden of Eden (a/k/a my back yard). He was pointing to a truncated limb on my apricot tree, and he is the guru from the University Agricultural Extension Service. “Yep,” I said. “That looks pretty bad.” The limb had been hacked off and many little branches sprouted out like a cartwheel. Unsightly. Who would do such a thing? Hmmm… maybe someone who didn’t know what she was doing? Who just wanted that limb to stop rubbing on the shingles and dropping apricots out of reach high on the roof where they sat and rotted? But whoever that person was, she was keeping her mouth shut. “Now the fig is another matter,” he said as he turned around. Some branches were so low that they swept the ground, but others towered… Read More »