our very small tree!
we got it from the grocery store. it was hanging out in the christmas plant section with the amaryllises and those blooming cacti and when i saw it i thought YOU belong with us.
here's some fun facts about our new bud:
1. it's a goldcrest which is a conifer, a family of evergreen trees who've been around for more than three hundred million years. that is so old i don't even think birthday cards go up that high.
2. in summer it's lemon scented.
3. one website said that goldcrests are 'very good for streets, avenues and parks', how versatile! comforting to know it will be equally at home among our city friends and country friends.
4. it grows to the room it's given so as long as you care for it and water it regularly and feed it with plant food once a month (or diluted with the water daily) - it can become as big as 5 metres tall!
we're going to grow it as big as we can indoors and then plant it in the woods in ten years time when it's too big for us to look after and we'll exchange a tearful but happy goodbye because this was the day we'd all dreamed of from the start.
welcome beauty! make yourself at home. there's some cold pc diet cola in the fridge.
2 comments:
remember goldie hawn? you might want to prep yourself for the tearful but happy goodbye a little sooner than ten years time. i'm just sayin...
LOL
hahahaha awwwwman.
i think maybe she was just really old. or 2 food sticks at once is too much for a plant.
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