Symbiosis

The living together of two dissimilar organisms especially when it is mutually beneficial

As I sit here at breakfast this morning, I cannot help but notice and marvel at the beauty of the 3-year-old plum tree, just out side of the window, grafted to wild rootstock. Mother Nature is demonstrating right before my eyes so much vigor and yet so much tranquillity. This native rootstock appeared and grew vigorously on the spot no doubt a seed dropped by a native bird. Possibly, it is a wild plum rootstock quite native to eastern Oregon. Makes a powerful plum jelly and wine that can knock your socks off. Knowing that on School house Lane there was growing a thoroughly acclimated plum tree possibly over 100 years old, from Shady Coves' very beginnings. This plum is by far the best tasting plum I have found in my life. I grafted this Schoolhouse Lane plum to this rootstock. Now this year I will reap the benefits of this great plum.

Question is:

WHY should each morning as the sun rises, when the plum leaves go into photo synthesis, should these leaves provide nourishment and vigor to the root stock that is really foreign to the 2300 plus leaves and conversely:

WHY should the root stock each day proceed to send up the water and nourishment to the 2300 plus leaves. Nourishment that allows for the vigorous growth of the more than 2300 plus leaves. This is a beautiful scene of mutual benefit that mankind should learn from. An obvious lesson for all of us living up here in the Upper Rogue.

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