A turning fall ginkgo
Another duplicate post from Places of the Spirit. Inktober Day 30: A Ginkgo leaf As biologists and ecologists, we definitely know that ginkgo, even if a living fossil, doesn't support any current living wildlife species, at least not insects. But we've had them now in three places: the first was in the garden of the first house we owned, in Statesboro, GA, planted by the previous owner. Our first Golden, Chessie, loved the leaves. I had a photo that I loved of my gardening companion (Tim) and Chessie playing with them. It was a pre-digital age, so I'm not sure if I still have that photo, but it's solidly in my memory of that place. In Clemson, we planted Ginkgos from seed, collected on campus from the female Ginkgos near the P&A building. I had a cubicle in the P&A building in my early years at the SC Botanical Garden, so I knew those trees. We lived in Clemson for 22 years, I think, and our ginkgos were quite tall by the time we left,...