Treeskin has new trees to herd....

I came home from Stan's with a bucket of 3" - 12" tall redbud seedlings, one seedling I suspect is a sweetgum (only has two leaves, kinda hard to tell at that size), a China holly, a golden rain tree (about 6" tall), and a 15" tall seedling off of his neighbor's Japanese yew. Myrna's sure there are more holly seedlings lurking in her yard, and said she'd call me to capture them as soon as she found them.

The yew went in the circular bed in front, between the Spartan rose and the daylilies. The golden rain tree went up in the iris beds, where I'd put the ginkgo seedling this spring (it died, too dry). The redbuds and holly I put in "storage" in a mostly-empty bed for now. We'll see how many survive the winter.

This also prompted me to get the bonsai out of its pot, and into the ground for the winter. Must remember to mulch him.

I'm tempted, next spring, to pot up one or two of the redbuds and try to bonsai them. I think that'd be really cute.

Also came home with about three bushels of pears, and instructions to come get more if I run out. So, today's agenda includes cleaning the kitchen, decanting the meads into fresh carboys, and starting a batch of pear wine. I'd kinda like to do some pear butter, too, but I need to see how I'm set for jelly jars. May have to stop at Walfart tomorrow after work and get some. Gotta find the recipe for pear butter first. That might help. I can't remember what goes into pear butter, besides pears and cinnamon.