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IAN: Tuesday, August 16, 2022: My Dream Tree! [1]

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Date: 2022-08-15

Tuesday: A day to: welcome a new member to the garden.

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Almost 30 years ago I visited Scottsdale, Arizona—and toured the nearby Desert Botanical Garden, in Phoenix.. It was in January—and the temps were, for me, perfect: cooly mild. I saw many cacti and other succulents, many of which I later added to my own garden in the SF Bay Area.

But one of those plants, not a real succulent or cactus, was a tree. The Palo Verde. I was enchanted by its fairy-like daintiness and its drought toughness. And its wonderful green mini leaves—and its green trunk.

Palo verde trees commonly occur in the Southwest: the foothill, yellow or little leaf palo verde (Parkinsonia aculeata) and the blue palo verde (Parkinsonia florida). Palo verde – Spanish for green wood or stick – alludes to the plant’s greenish branches and trunk. Common names refer to location, bark tints or comparative leaf size. DesertUSA site

So you’d probably imagine that long ago I would have purchased one of these beauties and installed it at Rancho EJ.

Sadly, no. And I have no idea why. I guess I got distracted my, um, Life.

But 2 weeks ago, visiting another famous dry climate botanical garden, The Ruth Bancroft Gardens in Walnut Creek, CA (in the East Bay Area) for the 3rd time—I decided that if they did sell the Palo Verde, I’d take one home with me. And, so I did!( It was a bit of a trick to get it safely into our sedan, but we did.)

True, Rancho EJ is not in the desert SW, but we do have some very full sun areas and I think my new addition will do well. I’m told that our deer will probably not bother it, but time will tell. Info on the species tells me that the Palo Verde can live well past 100 years. This tree is only 5 years old, so it has a way to go—outliving me by, well, aloooong time.

Maybe someday. . . I should live so long!!

Can someone love a tree? Of course! And one has numerous loves, right? There’s a gigantic Redwood in my garden, which my mom planted as a baby sapling just before I was born. So, well, it’s a mature tree now. Mature like me, cough, cough. But a helluva lot more majestic. I’ve loved that tree my whole life. And it, too, will long outlive me.

So what are your plant loves?

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