A venerable apple tree (or possibly crabapple), whose low and wide-flung limbs provide ample framing opportunities for shots around the Demonstration Garden and its gazebo.

Hidden Lake Gardens, Michigan
March 12, 2012
(Canon 50D)
Waiting for summer.
The Demonstration Garden gazebo, framed by limbs of an old apple tree.

Hidden Lake Gardens, Michigan
March 22, 2012
(Canon 50D)
Waiting for summer.
The Demonstration Garden gazebo, framed by limbs of an old apple tree.

Hidden Lake Gardens, Michigan
March 22, 2012
(Canon 50D)
Never been sprayed.
Some older variety of apple tree, now left to do its own thing.  Probably planted decades ago when the land now occupied by the Gardens was farm land.

Cobblers Knob, Hidden Lake Gardens,
Lenawee County, Michigan
September 27, 2011
These are the crabapples the swans were eating so eagerly.  No, I didn't taste them to see what all the fuss was about.

Toledo Botanical Garden,
November, 2010.
I look forward to the annual autumn display of crabapples, hawthorn berries, persimmons, bittersweet, etc.

Toledo Botanical Garden,
November, 2010.
I look forward to the annual autumn display of crabapples, hawthorn berries, persimmons, bittersweet, etc.
This is kind of a "before and after" portrait.

Toledo Botanical Garden,
November, 2010.
I look forward to the annual autumn display of crabapples, hawthorn berries, persimmons, bittersweet, etc.

Toledo Botanical Garden,
November, 2010.
A small (no more than 2" diameter), seemingly unblemished apple, lying on the gravel along the river bank beneath the new Dixboro Road bridge.  It was almost as though someone had left it there as an offering, so I'm passing that offering along to you...

SE Michigan,
October 23
A venerable apple tree (or possibly crabapple), whose low and wide-flung limbs provide ample framing opportunities for shots around the Demonstration Garden and its gazebo.

Hidden Lake Gardens, Michigan
March 12, 2012
(Canon 50D)
A venerable apple tree (or possibly crabapple), whose low and wide-flung limbs provide ample framing opportunities for shots around the Demonstration Garden and its gazebo.

Hidden Lake Gardens, Michigan
March 12, 2012
(Canon 50D)
A venerable apple tree (or possibly crabapple), whose low and wide-flung limbs provide ample framing opportunities for shots around the Demonstration Garden and its gazebo.

Hidden Lake Gardens, Michigan
March 12, 2012
(Canon 50D)
See photo in original gallery.