Where we left off: Elizabeth of Milarch Nursery tagging the Princess Emily
L to R: Princess E; Elizabeth of Milarch’s; Kevin of Singing Tree; Craig (co-adoptee)
Princess E having branches tied for transporting
Front-end forklift digging in under PE’s rootball
Princess E being situated on forklift
Princess E riding forklift to flatbed trailer
Princess Emily’s removal from Milarch Nursery’s “Dogwood Row”
Princess E and traveling companion, a London Plane tree, on flatbed trailer with Kevin, who is about to cover them both for the ride to Royal Oak
Dean & Nick from Singing Tree using a hatchet on surface beech roots
Dean & Nick digging the hole for Princess E
Off the trailer
Princess E in the backyard awaiting planting . . .
. . . which was no small feat. Princess E may look small, but she was very heavy!Straightening her outNick and Dean mulch Princess E with Ailanthus (“Tree of Heaven”) woodchips. Notice the honey locust watching over the scene in the background, just on the other side of out carport. February 2019, the month the Arbor Day Plot was conceived, Singing Tree visited me for the first time, to trim this honey locust. See that adventure here: https://arbordayplot.com/2019/02/26/singing-tree-the-honey-locust/3 minutes of water and she’s good to go.Princess Emily planted in her “forever-home,” Tuesday, May 26, 2020Now for ferns for her backdrop and hostas, perhaps, in the foreground (and, of course, more river rocks)
Princess Emily tonight, her third evening here, enjoying a light drizzle with the American beech, who is the canopy to her understory
Thanks, Lynn, I agree both w/the level of production and how beautiful she is. Although the sun’s spottily coming out now, since I posted, we had an intense downpour, and her bracts were coming down interspersed with driving slants of fine rain. Thanks for urging me on; 4 posts in 5 days is a little above par for me ๐
Congrats on Princess Emily, MD! Sheโs a beauty and I need to find out where the nursery is you bought her from. My back yard has been calling to me. I have lost two of three old apple trees that I loved when I bought the house. The third is hurting, but I refuse to let her go.
Thanks, Martha! She certainly is that! I bought her through Singing Tree (https://www.singingtreedetroit.com/), who planted her (but I could have bought directly) from Milarch Nursery (https://milarchnursery.com/) in Lyon Township. Perhaps Singing Tree could help save your third apple tree.
Fred Green
on June 1, 2020 at 9:25 pm
Thanks for the honor of letting us pay homage to Princess Emily in person. She is quite divine.
On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 7:03 PM The Arbor Day Plot wrote:
> Maureen Dunphy posted: ” Where we left off: Elizabeth of Milarch Nursery > tagging the Princess Emily L to R: Princess E; Elizabeth of Milarch’s; > Kevin of Singing Tree; Craig (co-adoptee)Princess E having branches tied > for transportingFront-end forklift digging in under PE’s r” >
So happy we’ve been able to see you some during this time of little in-person, Fred! We keeping your anniversary (or toad-rat-blue goldfinch) messages on our windows.
Thanks, Susan. That she is! And, I’m worrying about her as the baby she is . . . Too dry? Too wet? Did I pick the wrong spot for her? Does she get too much afternoon sun?
Quite the production–but she looks at home. ๐ Beautiful tree.
Thanks, Lynn, I agree both w/the level of production and how beautiful she is. Although the sun’s spottily coming out now, since I posted, we had an intense downpour, and her bracts were coming down interspersed with driving slants of fine rain. Thanks for urging me on; 4 posts in 5 days is a little above par for me ๐
Congrats on Princess Emily, MD! Sheโs a beauty and I need to find out where the nursery is you bought her from. My back yard has been calling to me. I have lost two of three old apple trees that I loved when I bought the house. The third is hurting, but I refuse to let her go.
Thanks, Martha! She certainly is that! I bought her through Singing Tree (https://www.singingtreedetroit.com/), who planted her (but I could have bought directly) from Milarch Nursery (https://milarchnursery.com/) in Lyon Township. Perhaps Singing Tree could help save your third apple tree.
Thanks for the honor of letting us pay homage to Princess Emily in person. She is quite divine.
On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 7:03 PM The Arbor Day Plot wrote:
> Maureen Dunphy posted: ” Where we left off: Elizabeth of Milarch Nursery > tagging the Princess Emily L to R: Princess E; Elizabeth of Milarch’s; > Kevin of Singing Tree; Craig (co-adoptee)Princess E having branches tied > for transportingFront-end forklift digging in under PE’s r” >
So happy we’ve been able to see you some during this time of little in-person, Fred! We keeping your anniversary (or toad-rat-blue goldfinch) messages on our windows.
What a pretty baby!
Thanks, Susan. That she is! And, I’m worrying about her as the baby she is . . . Too dry? Too wet? Did I pick the wrong spot for her? Does she get too much afternoon sun?