The 300-year old olive tree is healthy and always growing new branches, planted by the Franciscan friars who built the St. John of God church in the earliest days of San Miguel Allende's founding.
This tree is in that garden, along with an heirloom from Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a mulberry tree descended from the seedlings he brought to provide for industries of silk and wine. The mulberry tree at Huerta San Juan de Dios has been home to redheaded woodpeckers that raise a strong baby bird each year, and the tiniest hummingbirds the size of moths in groups of up to 20 birds nourish themselves from the enormous pepper tree with massive sprays of tiny aromatic flowers that turn into very pink berries - potpourri seemingly scattered on the rooftops near this tree, the berries are that colorful; fertile as a reforestation tree once used for constructing saddle frames.
Marcela Andre, 23 October 2014
I welcome inquiries on the property at andregallery@gmail.com or contact Wesley Gleason at his San Miguel Allende real estate offices on Hospicio 37, Centro.
This tree is in that garden, along with an heirloom from Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a mulberry tree descended from the seedlings he brought to provide for industries of silk and wine. The mulberry tree at Huerta San Juan de Dios has been home to redheaded woodpeckers that raise a strong baby bird each year, and the tiniest hummingbirds the size of moths in groups of up to 20 birds nourish themselves from the enormous pepper tree with massive sprays of tiny aromatic flowers that turn into very pink berries - potpourri seemingly scattered on the rooftops near this tree, the berries are that colorful; fertile as a reforestation tree once used for constructing saddle frames.
Marcela Andre, 23 October 2014
I welcome inquiries on the property at andregallery@gmail.com or contact Wesley Gleason at his San Miguel Allende real estate offices on Hospicio 37, Centro.
