22 JUN 2008 To Each Tree Its Own

Apple Forest: Apple One and Apple Two have rallied! They are doing well, standing and posing, showing off their leaves.

Peach Forest: The Peachys just won't stop. Grow, grow, grow! Let it be known that the Peachys have prompted the massive repotting exercise that led to the Forest of Pots (see last picture).

Sycamore Forest #1: Sycadee and Sycadum are looking a bit ragged, but still millimetering skyward. The central member of the quintet, which appeared to have bizzare leafing genetics, went into a downward spiral and didn't recover. Perhaps being surrounded on all sides by other greedy pot-mates led to its demise? In addition to Sycadee and Scyadum, the two others have now been dubbed Sycabee and Sycabum. They are smaller, but still hanging around.

Sycamore Forest #2: Disaster has struck! The seven Sycamores of three weeks ago became six with the westward trip of PB Sycamore, and perhaps the transplant was just in time. The Three Sycateers and two others were brutally decimated by unknown causes. Could it have been by each other? Or, perhaps they and their siblings had broken hearts because Toddy left them for a week? Oh the treemanity! The lone survivor of Sycamore Forest #2 on the east coast, TE Sycamore (Two East Sycamore) now has only PB Sycamore on the west coast as a surviving pot-mate. And TE doesn't look too good, with only a single leaf ... hang on TE!

PB Sycamore (Sycamore Forest West): PB is flourishing out west, having survived 107 F degree heat unscathed. PB has a wee friend, it seems. Should the friend be moved ... or extinguished?!

The Forest of Pots: Five Sycamore giants, three Peach giants, and two Apple giants make ten.



In the back row, Peachy One in black, Peachy Two in green, Peachy Three in red.

In the middle row, from the left, Apple One, Sycadee, Sycadum (carefully separated!), Sycabee, and Apple Two.

In the front row, Sycabum and TE Sycamore.