@elmussol

Do you do cuttings to propagate new trees?  I have just started doing that this winter: taking cuttings from various trees and sticking them in pots of soil.  Since things have started warming up I am seeing buds and sprouts all over. It is exciting. I hope they last and are able to root. It gets very dry here so I will have to be very mindful of them the first year I think.

We have good friends who are organic fruit farmers (peach, plum and cherry). We've done a barter thing and these plum trees are part of the exchange. So I don't intend to experiment with these much because:

a: we'll get some more as part of the on-going deal, that have been got through the difficult first part by someone who knows what they are doing, and

b: we have other gardening projects that are higher on the water priority list.

You are completely correct about buds and sprouts being exciting -- the broad beans started poking through today. :-)

Next question:  Are you familiar with Elderberries?  I have been trying to grow some. They seem to have a sort of cult-following.
There is a native-californian type I have been cultivating, but when I have ordered bulk elderberries online they seem to all come from Europe.

Prolific where I'm from (north of England). My Grandma used to make elderflower cordial and elderberry wine. Never saw them cultivated because they were just "in the woods". I have never seen them in Catalunya.