Steve's Trees

When Steve brought home the apple tree he had been talking about wanting, I was less than impressed. It was a stick in a pot. Literally, there were no leaves, no sign of life. I was skeptical. But since he brought it home, it has been growing leaves at a brisk pace. It's a "columnar" apple tree and will grow, as you might expect from the name, in a column shape, growing leaves and apples directly from the main trunk.


Steve's mom was also kind enough to give us a Japanese Maple that she didn't know what to do with. We wandered over to "Pottery Planet" to check out the selection and found that it indeed lived up to it's name. There was room after room, stacked to the ceiling with all manner of pottery. We found a pot that we felt accented the colors in the tree. In the picture, Steve is watering it with gray water from our washer, just after transplanting it (and, by the way, it did not remain in the center of the lawn, although we did debate the artistic merits of leaving it there).