Sunday, 2 October 2011

Cindered olive trees

copyright Coastal Gardening Society 2011
Amazingly, olive trees often grow back from this. During a visit in 1990 there was a particularly bad fire which surrrounded Draguignan, a town the size of Maidstone in Kent. Thousands of hectares of land were destroyed, lives were lost, including a fire crew. With my parents I survived by following les sapeurs pompiers down a hill and camping out on the beach in the car.

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