
I have been trying desperately this summer to green up the landscaping. I am at about a 15% success rate. Thank the heavens that Lowe's guarantees their plants for one year- I have taken full advantage of this policy and wheeled in carts of sad, emaciated stumps that used to be plants. I did not want to kill them they just died, perhaps I loved them too much- I am positive I am going to be blacklisted at Lowes. Of the probably 25-30 plants I have about 5 that have survived, so far. Pictured is "Ryan Marcus" (named after the brave souls that were invaluable during our calamity of a move) our Mexican White Oak- that I thought was dying- but all the sudden he sprouted a bunch of new leaves. Victory!!!
p.s. we tried to buy a larger tree- but this is what they had and it is too flippin hot to track down a bigger one- so we wait...patiently.