apricot

He went from standard citrus, apricot and avocado to a more exotic collection, adding finger limes, valentine pummelos, jaboticaba, cherimoya and pawpaw.

She shaves his face, massages his head, slices apples and apricots for his breakfast each morning.

The dried apricots and figs should be quartered, and the apple diced to a similar size.

But for long, long decades before, Santa Clara County was “the Valley of Heart’s Delight,” a bee-and-blossom Eden of fragrant fruit: cherries, apricots, and mostly plums for prunes.

When Augusztiny purchased the home in 1996, the traditional yard looked like many others on his street, with a Bermuda grass lawn, assorted shrubs and an apricot tree.