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The Planting of Princess E

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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 transporting
  • Front-end forklift digging in under PE’s rootball
  • Princess E being situated on forklift
  • Princess E riding forklift to flatbed trailer
Princess Emily’s removal from Milarch Nursery’s “Dogwood Row”

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 digging the hole for Princess E
  • Off the trailer
  • Princess E in the backyard awaiting planting . . .
. . . 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