When you get to be 80 you discover how much you missed on the way here. Why worry about it. Nothing is going to change because of your advanced age. It will still be there a million years from now. Steve S.

Whenever I see an old, dilapidated building, barn or shed, usually on a rural road, I think to myself, "Once that was brand new and somebody was happy to be using it. What happened for it to fall into such disrepair?"

I often think that too ~ what happened? Why did someone stop caring for it? Applies to people too sometimes.

The truth is that I don't know what the truth is.

"At the back of the ruins a wild orange tree covered with fruit, the leaves a dark green. A beautiful place."

I don't know if there is such a thing as a "wild orange tree".
Some 30 years ago, we planted a naval orange tree in our yard and with pruning, feeding and care we have reaped lots of yummy fruit. I have never seen a seed sprout to form a new tree, nor have any new trees sprouted from the root.

So, how do I get a "wild orange tree"

Lol, personally, I think that the
orange tree was planted by somebody.

The Wide Sargasso Sea is a novel which takes place in the Caribbean and England.Rhys was probably referring to a mock orange or something else they call wild orange trees in either of those countries. It's a good book.

I googled "The Wide Sargasso Sea" and I see that it is a novel made into a film and DVD.
I guess in a novel one can have a "wild orange tree".