Back in April I dug several trees up from random flower beds. I put one tree in a nursery container and watered it nicely. It did not take to it, and three days later the leaves were brown and crinkly. I watered it faithfully anyway thinking it might come back. By July I was having doubts, and by August it was obviously dead.

So, I moved it over away from the live trees and continued to water them, and not this one. This morning, watering the others, I looked down at the tree dead since April, and what did I see? Leaves.

It goes to show you never can tell.

Happy to see you having success collecting your yardadaris lol,

But you can tell
If you look at the bark you can tell whether it has dried out or is still sappy.

I didn't note that this was after July and August with very little rain, temperatures over 100 F/38C, and it should have died after a week.

I never looked at the bark, and I guess I should have. I have about a dozen dug up now and losing that skinny trunk didn't bother me a lot. Now I have to treat the tough guy like a survivor and find something wonderful in that skinny trunk.

Just put it back in the ground and treat it as a champ. Singing "your a survivor" mentime. After a few years when digging it up again sing "eye of the tiger"



Br
Magnus