Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Lastelf's Meditation Garden, 1 by Lastelf

Lastelf wrote:
These all have a story.

I rescued this one from a seller on ebay. It turns out that it was a genuine rescue. I had to drive to Rochester NY to pick her up.

That's a cigar tree in the background.

Somehow it made its was into bucket of rose of sharon that I never got planted. Over the winter the water in the bucket froze- so it spent the winter in a slab of ice.

It has bark just like a rose of sharon, and when it got some little leaf buds on it, I decided that it really wanted to live, despite my mistreatment. So I plnated it at the end of the rose of sharon border.

Two weeks later, I discovered that it was a cigar tree volunteer that I had tossed. It's six feet from a a tiny dogwood. One of them has got to go. That spunky little cigar tree has my heart- but they get soooo big!