A Tree for Me

One of my favorite nurseries has an annual half price sale every October. That is one dangerous postcard they mail out! They sell perennials but mostly it is a tree and shrubs place. I don't have a huge yard and I already have pretty many trees...But I did need some new shrubs. When I moved in I really didn't know what would thrive and what wouldn't or what the deer would find ever so tasty. After ten years I have figured things out some so I thought I'd replace all scrappy or dieing shrubs with new sure to be happy and alive ones. My girl friend and I headed down the road. (I should mention she is a very bad influence!)

The first time we visited it was a beautiful fall day. I was a good girl and only bought three bushes. The second time we visited everything seemed to be "just right" and I was a very bad girl.

I fell in love with a tree.I found a Pagoda tree or Katsura tree.This particular variety of tree grows a huge weeping canopy all the way to the ground. When I was a kid there was one in the park across the street. It was a magical tree thirty or forty feet across with weeping limbs that created a secret space perfect for hiding and building forts. Mine is a smaller variety but it should still make a decent fort.This is a tree for the grand-kids!

The nursery guy assured us he could fit three trees and fifteen bushes in one minivan and dammed if he didn't! I ended up with five bushes and one tree. Of course this morning when I got up it was snowing. Not very good gardening weather. Hopefully it will shape up because I have some holes to dig!