The Planting of Princess E

Posted on May 28, 2020 by Maureen Dunphy

Where we left off: Elizabeth of Milarch Nursery tagging the Princess Emily

L to R: Princess E; Elizabeth of Milarch’s; Kevin of Singing Tree; Craig (co-adoptee)

L to R: Princess E; Elizabeth of Milarch’s; Kevin of Singing Tree; Craig (co-adoptee)

Princess E and traveling companion, a London Plane tree, on flatbed trailer with Kevin, who is about to cover them both for the ride to Royal Oak

Dean & Nick from Singing Tree using a hatchet on surface beech roots

Dean & Nick from Singing Tree using a hatchet on surface beech roots

. . . which was no small feat. Princess E may look small, but she was very heavy!

Straightening her out

Nick and Dean mulch Princess E with Ailanthus (“Tree of Heaven”) woodchips. Notice the honey locust watching over the scene in the background, just on the other side of out carport. February 2019, the month the Arbor Day Plot was conceived, Singing Tree visited me for the first time, to trim this honey locust. See that adventure here: https://arbordayplot.com/2019/02/26/singing-tree-the-honey-locust/

3 minutes of water and she’s good to go.

Princess Emily planted in her “forever-home,” Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Now for ferns for her backdrop and hostas, perhaps, in the foreground (and, of course, more river rocks)

Princess Emily tonight, her third evening here, enjoying a light drizzle with the American beech, who is the canopy to her understory

8 thoughts on “The Planting of Princess E”

lynnfay73 on May 28, 2020 at 7:22 pm said:

Quite the production–but she looks at home. 🙂 Beautiful tree.

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- Maureen Dunphy on May 28, 2020 at 7:34 pm said:
  
  Thanks, Lynn, I agree both w/the level of production and how beautiful she is. Although the sun’s spottily coming out now, since I posted, we had an intense downpour, and her bracts were coming down interspersed with driving slants of fine rain. Thanks for urging me on; 4 posts in 5 days is a little above par for me 🙂
  
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mrmiller48 on May 29, 2020 at 11:32 am said:

Congrats on Princess Emily, MD! She’s a beauty and I need to find out where the nursery is you bought her from. My back yard has been calling to me. I have lost two of three old apple trees that I loved when I bought the house. The third is hurting, but I refuse to let her go.

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- Maureen Dunphy on May 29, 2020 at 12:14 pm said:
  
  Thanks, Martha! She certainly is that! I bought her through Singing Tree (https://www.singingtreedetroit.com/), who planted her (but I could have bought directly) from Milarch Nursery (https://milarchnursery.com/) in Lyon Township. Perhaps Singing Tree could help save your third apple tree.
  
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Fred Green on June 1, 2020 at 9:25 pm said:

Thanks for the honor of letting us pay homage to Princess Emily in person. She is quite divine.

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 7:03 PM The Arbor Day Plot wrote:

> Maureen Dunphy posted: ” Where we left off: Elizabeth of Milarch Nursery > tagging the Princess Emily L to R: Princess E; Elizabeth of Milarch’s; > Kevin of Singing Tree; Craig (co-adoptee)Princess E having branches tied > for transportingFront-end forklift digging in under PE’s r” >

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- Maureen Dunphy on June 2, 2020 at 10:46 am said:
  
  So happy we’ve been able to see you some during this time of little in-person, Fred! We keeping your anniversary (or toad-rat-blue goldfinch) messages on our windows.
  
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Susan Hall-Balduf on June 15, 2020 at 3:09 pm said:

What a pretty baby!

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- Maureen Dunphy on June 15, 2020 at 7:55 pm said:
  
  Thanks, Susan. That she is! And, I’m worrying about her as the baby she is . . . Too dry? Too wet? Did I pick the wrong spot for her? Does she get too much afternoon sun?
  
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