So I got my trees from the Arbor Day Foundation. I think I paid $35 in total, and after I bought them, I read all sorts of Internet smashing on how not great the trees from them are. The trees really look like little dormant rooted clippings, but I'm not going to complain. I like the challenge of growing them. So yesterday I planted the two pear trees, a red maple, and two forsythia bushes. We totally got rid of the garden plot, fence, weeds and all, and in the center of it, I finally planted my red mulberry tree that I "saved" from the plot of mowed down forest across the road. I have had it in a large pot that I could barely move for the longest time, so now it is finally in the ground. The tree seems to be doing well. I decided to leave some of the bunches of fennel that just grow around the edges there, and I planted one of the forsythia bushes near the fennel. I forgot what all I got from the Arbor Day Foundation, though, and was kind of sur...
A botanical journaling to document progress of growth.