Fruit bearing trees

I love flower trees/plants. They are the most gorgeous trees without any doubt. But fruit bearing trees have their own advantages too. Especially for those who love animals and birds and are a little grown up.

My home at burdwan had a lot of fruit bearing trees- coconut, mango, berry, guava, custard apple etc etc.

When we were growing up we used to fight tooth and nail with birds, squirrels and langurs. It was really fun. Now when I look back I think we were far funnier than those innocent children of nature. No sooner than we heard them squeaking in the trees we used to run and try to scare them away. Every one ran away but the langurs. It was next to impossible to make them leave. But we tried all the same.

Then after growing up it became fun to watch them eat. They used to spend hours on the trees, feeding on leaves, fruits. Feeding their children, nursing them, playing. As for birds and squirrels they were every day visitors. That did not reduce their charm by the way.

Its great to have some fruit trees around you if you don’t have destructible properties around them. For example, if you plant a few fruit trees in your vegetable or flower garden you will like rolling on the ground and howling when a group of langur or squirrels have been through them. They are very, very destructive. Sparrows and squirrels are deadly for small plants and langurs are killers.. they destroy almost all plants, sapling or grown up. But if you want to plant only big trees, in that case fruit trees can be quite fun if you want to share them with other children of nature.

As for me, my dream garden contains a small pond and lots of fruit trees surrounding it, and a covered portion full of flower plants.