Mission Fig Tree

Our baby Mission Fig tree.  Bought at an Austin Farmer's Market while visiting friends in 2014.  We were living in our "industrial area" duplex, and I was trying to bring life to the backyard that we had at that time.  I have very fond memories of fig trees and childhood.  My Nannie had a fig tree in her luscious back yard in San Antonio.  She had a gorgeous garden and beautiful roses too.  But I loved her figs and fig preserves.  I cannot remember eating a breakfast at her home without a jar of fig preserves on the table.  And I loved them and it was such a treat to have on toast, served up with her love.  I can also remember eating them right off the tree, and it was like a "candy tree" to me.  So I wanted my son Michael to experience some of this with a mission fig tree of our own.  Over the years it grew to be a large and fruitful tree, and yes, I did make preserves.  I made the decision to move it with us and try to transplant it in our new "green area" duplex.  I couldn't bear to part with it, and it wasn't planted in the best place, because when I bought it I didn't really know what I was doing.  I never really planted it, but it grew roots through the large pot that I had placed it in.  I had to hire my friend's husband again for this job.  It has gone through winter now, and I have pruned it, but it remains to be seen if it will survive.  I will be very sad if it doesn't make it, but I had to try.  If it doesn't survive, I will have to for sure get another one.  It is just that this one grew with my son, and we have special memories of it together.  
Moving Day for the Mission Fig tree.  Moving it from our "industrial area" duplex to our new home.
The new home for the tree in the back yard.  There is some new green at the bottom of the tree.  So I do think that there is hope.  


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