Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Weather Watching #4 Winter 2013/14, 2 by ViburnumValley

ViburnumValley wrote:
See? I've totally forgotten the plunging thermometer, incessant winds, and pileup of precipitation.

But in the interest of keeping the home fires burning - stoking the embers of the soul, if you will - one must continue the harvest. This particular specimen was lovingly grown just for this kind of occasion.

A rare hybrid of Prunus armeniaca, Prunus dulcis, Theobroma cacao, and Viburnum ×pragense, this individual was cut (which produced the sawdust and wood chips surrounding the round) in celebration of the holiday visit of Mrs. VV's brother and wife from Germany. Because of the venerable age at which the specimen was collected - you can clearly count the rings - it was paired with some equally august late harvest wines of the Rhine valley region.

This is the Valley version of Baumkuchen.