Saturday, May 31, 2008

The Anniversary Orange Tree

My loving wife has bought me a Washington Orange Tree for the garden as a present for our first anniversary. Now some may say there's some symbolism involved in planting a tree, especially one that is a 1 year old fruit tree that's given to mark the first anniversary of a happy, happy marriage that has already bared 1 happy, happy baby. Some may question whether there's hidden meanings in such a token gift, especially given the tree does already have one single fruit already on it!

Well... not me! Can't see ANY symbolism here.... not a single reference to little family......

The tag says these trees can grow to 8 to 10 meters. Now that's a preeeety big big tree! Guess there'll be a fair few oranges produced....
- but that's only AFTER getting it in the ground!


So... on a small block, where do you put a tree of this splendour? Note the daisy bush shown below in the back left corner - won't be too hard to move the daisy bush, dig a hole and shove the tree there... right? - Note the little orange tree sitting expectantly at the front right of the daisy bush below - look close enough and you'll see the little orange. Putting this little, growing tree here means it's close enough to the mature lemon tree to the right, but has enough room to grow and become it's own tree
















Yup! just dig a hole and take out that old daisy bush - roots and all....

















Now, if you've ever dug a hole and hit a rock, you'll empathise with me here. Buried under the daisy shrub is not just a rock or two but a whole rock garden! and not just rocks, bricks, rusty tin, broken roof tile and fibro remains. The picture below was taken after about an hour of rock harvesting. After 4 hours or so, the pile had tripled in size but the hole for the tree would possibly bury my feet and not much more - expect that this will take a few more weekends yet - and so..... the Mighty Washington Orange Tree remains in its pot at this time

1 comment:

Leanne said...

HAPPY FIRST ANNIVERSARY!!!