Okay I know this isn’t thrilling material but it has a delicate quality that I enjoy. Hi This the first post in a two part series. My question will be in the second post so I can attatch multiple pictures .
To start I collected this tree out of season. (early August in 2001) It was growing in an area slated for construction spring 2002 originally but they started with the bulldozers in August 2001.
Due to the ill timed collection, the fact that I couldn’t plant it in the ground (perennials occupy nearly every square foot on my yard) and the fact that it’s native soil is very rocky and fast draining I opted to leave it in a pot in it’s own soil till it recovered(bonsai soil around the root ball).
Here is a picture of it at in August 2002 one year after collection. It really seamed to have adjusted well to pot culture. By fall the foliage was even thicker. (I still have to finish the film before I get the pictures back)