The locked-down gardener :: day 19

An apple a day keeps the doctor away(1)

It is not certain that this well-known English saying also applies to the campaign against the COVID-19. And in any case there are not any really edible apples in papi Jo’s garden, only an ornamental apple tree. It is the crab apple tree Malus ‘Evereste’, currently the star of the garden, as usual at the beginning of April.

(1) A little riddle. Click on the question below to see the answer…

What did the doctor’s wife do before going to spend a week at her mother’s?

She put 7 apples on the bedside table in the au pair’s room!