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Using portrait mode I got a nice picture of Bladderpod. It was really windy so I'm surprised the phone camera was able to get this shot. Here is more info and pictures from the NPS site: https://www.nps.gov/tuma/learn/nature/c ... garden.htm
What was great on the site is they actually have a diagram to help me/you identify the plants based on where they were.
Duell, a trader who visited the Tumacácori mission after it was abandoned, described the walled area that then existed to the east of the Tumacácori church as having, "...full grown fruit trees...peaches, pomegranates, quinces, etc….oriental appearance with white dome and deep green trees...gave an Asiatic effect. The high garden walls and beautiful baths still in as perfect a state as when left...Tumacácori was more fortunate than its neighbor to the north, San Xavier del Bac, and must have possessed a beautiful garden. Evidence of an irrigation system and partial garden wall was visible." Early travelers through the area commented in supplementing their food supply from the more than fifty peach trees in the Tumacácori mission garden. Many mentioned unharvested fruit and seeds littering the ground.
What was great on the site is they actually have a diagram to help me/you identify the plants based on where they were.
Duell, a trader who visited the Tumacácori mission after it was abandoned, described the walled area that then existed to the east of the Tumacácori church as having, "...full grown fruit trees...peaches, pomegranates, quinces, etc….oriental appearance with white dome and deep green trees...gave an Asiatic effect. The high garden walls and beautiful baths still in as perfect a state as when left...Tumacácori was more fortunate than its neighbor to the north, San Xavier del Bac, and must have possessed a beautiful garden. Evidence of an irrigation system and partial garden wall was visible." Early travelers through the area commented in supplementing their food supply from the more than fifty peach trees in the Tumacácori mission garden. Many mentioned unharvested fruit and seeds littering the ground.