Olives.

My Mum bought me this Olive tree for my birthday in 2008. 
Now that the sun has been let into the garden where the trees have been felled, there are little olives growing on the stems for the first time.
It just goes to show...

Æsop. (Sixth century B.C.)  Fables.
The Harvard Classics.  1909–14.
 
The Wind and the Sun
 
 
THE WIND and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger. Suddenly they saw a traveller coming down the road, and the Sun said: “I see a way to decide our dispute. Whichever of us can cause that traveller to take off his cloak shall be regarded as the stronger You begin.” So the Sun retired behind a cloud, and the Wind began to blow as hard as it could upon the traveller. But the harder he blew the more closely did the traveller wrap his cloak round him, till at last the Wind had to give up in despair. Then the Sun came out and shone in all his glory upon the traveller, who soon found it too hot to walk with his cloak on.

        
“KINDNESS EFFECTS MORE THAN SEVERITY.”