Lucy's plum tree is fruiting
One day I went out to find 10 plums had dropped' so exciting! Maroon colour with an appearance of having been lightly dusted with cornflour. Japanese blood plum, with sweet flesh and a sour stone.
The second day I picked up another ten.
The next day was very hot.
The heat in Tasmania is intense, as if to make up for all the freezing winter. There is a much higher uv factor to the sun so that you need a lot more sun protection.
The next day the grass under the tree was littered with plums, too many to count. This has been going on for 6 days. We are awash with plums. We have run out of containers and now have large plastic bags of plums on the bench and table.
We took a large bag to Chloe, lucy took a large bag to work. Still the tree continues to drop its fruit. Fabulous!

Yesterday I had the first of Lucy's apricots. It was a bit speckle, a bit hard up the stem end. But the taste...so sweet, and so juicy.  Intense apricotness.  There are twelve apricot trees planted on the bike path above Cirnelian Bay. Must remember to pick some more windfalls
An old chap on a bike told me that someone came and stripped the trees last year; how selfish, we agreed.