Tree One

Today we planted an East Palatka Holly near the place where the linden oak grew. We could only find one in all the nurseries around town that had a central leader and no pruning to make it bushy. It will be a better tree down through the years than the bushy ones we saw at all the other nurseries. In the short run, the bushy ones look better and ours looks thin and scrawny. But in the long run, those other trees will have forgotten how to grow up and ours will be a straight arrow to the moon. The single purpose of the growing pattern of our tree may look strange now, but later it will make perfect sense.