Meet Our New Tree

For the last month or so I have been anxiously awaiting the delivery of our new baby tree.  If you remember last summer, our beautiful Bradford Pear blew over in a storm and our yard has been very empty without its loveliness and shade.  Wow, we were amazed at how much we missed the shade that our beloved Bradford provided to our front porch as well as the large window over the front door. In fact, my front porch flowers suffered as they were a more shady variety and then the shade was taken away halfway through the season. 

 
I knew right a way that just any little bitty tree would not do and I would not be happy with your typical, pitiful, stick with leaves on it that I had seen in my price range at the local nursery. However, as luck would have it, I found out that a local nursery was going out of business and needed to get rid of their "mature" trees for free.  Thats right you heard me FREE.  Well, not totally free you still needed to pay for them to harvest it and deliver it, but for $90 this lovely tree, was a bargin.  My friend, Sheri, need some trees for her place as well so being the super kind of gal that she is, she picked mine out and they were all delivered to her house.

 
Not being a hortaculture kind of gal, I wasn't really particular about what kind of tree I got as long as the only thing that my new tree dropped were leaves and not acorns, pods balls or those bean thingys.  Another friend of ours, Chad, owner of Adki Group, was kind enough to go pick up my tree from Sheri's and arrange to have it installed.  At this point the consesus is that my tree is some kind of Ash.  I cannot wait to see what it looks like this Spring and then again in the Fall. So I guess we really don't have a baby tree, more like a toddler as she is already over 12' tall.  Yipee!

Comments

[Sheri]

Okay, first off Judy... Chad doesn't "install" trees, he "plants" them. (I'm sorry Chad, sometimes she can be so embarrassing.) Second off, I have a lot of stress over this tree. (I was told it's an Urbanite Ash.) The pressure is like buying clothes for young 20 somethings...

[Sue]

So happy for you that your tree is all installed. (Just teasing) I looked up Urbanite Ash and it looks like a beautiful and hardy tree. I hope it will grow quickly for you. We put up some type of maple a few years ago and it is so tall and lush. I love how it shaded the house this past summer and how beautiful it is all year long. Enjoy your tree they are a wonderful blessing from God I think.

[Kaye Mcmilla]

Baby trees are so promising. They're surely are symbols of hope. I can imagine this baby tree covering the front your entire house. Great job, guys!