I've written it before about him, but plants wouldn't bored him. Instead of getting bored, they come back. Recently it happened to me at the door of my house: to go out and search for firewood and “what does that tree have?”

At the back of the house I have put a collection of weeping trees, and at the bottom of the hill, to dry the tears of its hanging branches, inhabits the tree of the scarves, Davidia, reduced to clusters. Davidia is a tribute to the Lazarist priest David Haltzueta, Jean Pierre Armand, born in the Bergara house of Ezpeleta in 1826. With the bear Panda, he discovered that this tree was a missionary in China.

It is already a few years old, it has been planted in 2004, still very young, but this year it has flourished for the first time. I was very happy to see her first flowers. It has a strange flower, it's a spherical set of flowers wrapped like in a pellet and upstairs down, in the form of two white or white leaves. Diarrhea is larger and very similar to a hanging scarf, hence the name. Hence his last name, means that the bract surrounding the floral sphere is wrapped by a pair. In other cultures, the flower resembles the pigeon and is called the pigeon tree. When the tree is mature or old, flourishing is spectacular, and the white pendant shapes a ghost, hence others call it a ghost tree.

Apparently, the first to emerge from the seeds of this tree sent to Europe flourished in 1906. We have been in Europe for over a hundred years looking at the splendor of this attractive tree, but it is very rare. It's not easy to find. We should find it more often in the gardens of Euskal Herria. I'm sure that when I see and know the moment of bloom, people would feel more like sitting next to their homes.

If I had to plant more in the Basque Country. What about Ezpeleta? The Ezpeleta should be left with pepper for not having scarf trees. I would put him in the bounce square, in honor of the supreme game. Also for all who come to Ezpeleta, despite the peppers, enjoy and know the tourist office.