Garden Girl

A kind person on flickr finally identified my front tree as a Bradford Pear and I’ve noticed my neighborhood is full of them. Texas Mountain Laurel is coming out strong too (ahhh, the Springtime smell of grape koolaid , *chuckle*.)
The Red Oaks are still asleep, ‘though.
I’m surprised I haven’t seen that other local favorite, the Texas Redbud around here.

In more very local tree news, Jeremy from  Bio-Gardener brought us fruit trees! He was a one man tree planting, information & education giving force of nature and he pointed me at even more resources for learning about my little plot of earth. He told me, for example, that the soil of the Blackland Prairie, where we are, is very different from the soil of the Hill Country next door.

Digging in to plant the fruit trees, I saw an earthworm or two, a good sign that the ground isn’t such dense clay that there’s no life going on down there.
My next post will be photos of Jeremy doing the hard labor & me just helping out getting the treelings in their new home.
Here’s hoping the baby plum, apricot, fig & peach trees that now gently stand watch at the four corners of my home thrive under my newbish care

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