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THE GREEN NUT

Even if you don’t grow them for their fruits, long-lived pistachios make beautiful feature trees.

These small- to medium-sized deciduous trees do best in areas where winter is cool to cold and summers hot and dry. In fact, if you don’t have a cold enough winter, they won’t receive enough chill to flower properly.

Even if your pistachio tree never fruits, the changing colour of its autumnal leaves

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