California Gardening: It's really fall!, 0 by PedricksCorner

PedricksCorner wrote:
My little sister has lived in SF her entire life and one day I was driving her around down here about Thanksgiving time and she remarked on the beautiful oranges on a tree in someones yard as we drove by.
I almost had to pull over, as I was laughing so hard!
They were indeed beautiful, but they were persimmons!
The winds are beating up my Mission Fig, but I have managed to get a few off of it everyday for a couple of weeks now.
I was wrong about the downed tree. It wasn't the Monterey Cyprus that fell. It was one of the huge eucalyptus that fell over and took half of the cyprus with it! I went to take photos this afternoon when there was a lull in the winds and at first, I couldn't figure out why there was a eucalyptus tree lying on my neighbors fence, ha, ha!
You can just make out the roots of the end of the tree close to the stumps.