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Jan. 29th, 2021 06:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scrubjayspeaksTree! Tree tree tree! *happy dance* I bought my new tree!
As part of the wildflower patch I've been planning over the last few months, I wanted to get a large shade tree. I have two each of Japanese zelkova and elderberry, both of which have been living in somewhat stifling pots for several years. The plan was to arrange them at opposite corners with a tree at the center. After much debate, we decided on a raywood ash (Fraxinus oxycarpa), available from our local independent nursery. But we hadn't actually bought it yet--I hadn't even been to see the selection.
One of my birthday gifts? Events? Treats? Was to go out today and pick one out. I'm buying it, but the money is the part I care about least. The gift is the doing it together part. We had originally talked about just getting a five-gallon one, for various reasons. But...uh...no. I sprang for the fifteen-gallon instead.
It was still well within what I considered an acceptable budget, we can stake it to stabilize it while it gets established, and it gives me a lot more tree immediately. It's not that I'm planning to die immediately or anything, but still, I have limited patience. I want a shade tree, and I want it to be big enough to enjoy as soon as possible.
Well, I now have eleven feet of shade tree, in fact. Yes, yes I did go out there with a measuring tape after we brought it home, just so I could know exactly how tall it is. It will take a couple days at least to get a hole dug and put it in the ground. And of course, it's a deciduous tree, so right now it's just a whole lot of bare branches. Come spring, though, it's going to be lovely already.
As part of the wildflower patch I've been planning over the last few months, I wanted to get a large shade tree. I have two each of Japanese zelkova and elderberry, both of which have been living in somewhat stifling pots for several years. The plan was to arrange them at opposite corners with a tree at the center. After much debate, we decided on a raywood ash (Fraxinus oxycarpa), available from our local independent nursery. But we hadn't actually bought it yet--I hadn't even been to see the selection.
One of my birthday gifts? Events? Treats? Was to go out today and pick one out. I'm buying it, but the money is the part I care about least. The gift is the doing it together part. We had originally talked about just getting a five-gallon one, for various reasons. But...uh...no. I sprang for the fifteen-gallon instead.
It was still well within what I considered an acceptable budget, we can stake it to stabilize it while it gets established, and it gives me a lot more tree immediately. It's not that I'm planning to die immediately or anything, but still, I have limited patience. I want a shade tree, and I want it to be big enough to enjoy as soon as possible.
Well, I now have eleven feet of shade tree, in fact. Yes, yes I did go out there with a measuring tape after we brought it home, just so I could know exactly how tall it is. It will take a couple days at least to get a hole dug and put it in the ground. And of course, it's a deciduous tree, so right now it's just a whole lot of bare branches. Come spring, though, it's going to be lovely already.
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