T and I planted a 5-year old naval orange tree in our front yard earlier this week (a wonderful housewarming gift from my parents)! It now joins our 80+ year old grapefruit tree in the yard. To reflect what an additionally significant event this is for us, I think this post also deserves a quick, historical background to the city of Phoenix and our neighborhood...The economy in early Phoenix was mostly agriculturally-based -- dependent on citrus and cotton farming. As the city developed, the economy changed to rely less on these agricultural industries. More than 60 years ago, our neighborhood was the site of a huge citrus orchard. When it was sold to developers, they removed most, but not all of the trees in order to build the houses. These remaining trees are still found throughout our neighborhood including the beautiful grapefruit tree in our front yard. Since citrus trees do have a limited life span, we thought we'd do our part to continue planting citrus (as most of our neighbors have also done) -- not to mention the shade and aesthetics it will provide to the front of our house.
Now, we won't get any oranges this season (the transplant is too much of a shock for the tree), but we should get fruit by next season! Here (above and below) are a couple of pics of our new, little friend!
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