Don’t get confused, teenage fig

Indoor sprout. My dear wife Karen noticed something pushing the sheet we’d placed on our wintering teenage fig tree higher and higher. Keep it dormant, said friend John, our fig tree expert who’d gifted us this tree as a baby last spring. The covered tree seemed to have other ideas. We’re hoping this does not…

Call it the teenage fig

Coming to the conclusion of its first growing season in our backyard, I would say the planting has gone from baby fig to toddler fig to teenage fig. Thank you, friend John, for your very special delivery.

Hello, baby fig tree

My friend John visited after work to diagnose the big fig tree he’d delivered in November. We’d been texting about some concerns rattling around my brain since he’d told me it was OK to take it out from its winter home in our shed. He’d mulled over my texted photos and decided it was time…

Figuring out our new tree

My friend John sent over a text that declared it was OK to take the fig tree he delivered from his careful pruning at the end of autumn out of our shed. My dear wife Karen and I teamed to hand-cart it onto its new backyard home. Half sun, half shade will be its new…