When you endeavor to do something, you try hard to make it happen. A determined student might endeavor to get straight As on her report card. The ordinary objects of human endeavor â property, outward success, luxury â have always seemed to me contemptible, wrote Albert Einstein. Presumably, NASA had loftier objects in mind when they named one of their space shuttles Endeavour, using the British spelling.
Make sure your area has proper almond growing conditions. Almond trees, which are native to the hot and arid climate of the Middle East and South Asia, do best with hot summers and mild winters and do not adapt to other conditions especially well. Almonds do not usually grow at all in colder climates.
One can leave a cold and rainy Porto and as soon as one breaches the mountain ranges be met with a pleasant, sunny day. As one travels upriver in the region the rainfall decreases and the temperatures increase. The average temperature in the Douro Superior is more than 6 degrees higher and the rainfall as little as a third of that in Porto. The first harbingers of spring can be seen early. In February and March the weather can be fine enough for picnics and this period brings the beautiful sight of white and pink clouds of almond trees in blossom, particularly in the higher regions.