Sustainable Me - Space for Creativity and Backyard Bunnies

I walked out into the backyard last night to check on the Mission Fig Tree, and was super excited to see this growth!  It might be a couple of years before we have figs again - but this little tree is going to make it - even after being transplanted!  It seems happy in its new spot and I can't wait to see how tall it is at the end of the growing season.  I'm so glad I brought it with me, even though it was pretty risky.  The tree has gone through a lot of change with the transplant, but is looking hardy and healthy.  

I just have to post again about my Mission Fig tree.  I just can't believe that it is really going to make it.  The top pictures show how bad and hopeless that it looked this winter.  And how dead everything was.  I was afraid that the transplanting had totally done it in.  I waited until the first hard freeze to prune the large dead branches.  The bottom photo shows the new leaves and new life that is coming back for the tree.  I took the bottom photo yesterday.  It will take several years of growth before it produces figs again, but I'm so very happy that it is on it's way back to Life!  And I'm hoping that it gets a lot of growth in for this season.  

 Well - Amazon and FedEx pulled through and this was sitting on my porch when I arrived home today!  It is pretty heavy!  I managed to drag it carefully into the house, but will have to have some help taking it to the studio and setting it up!  I may can get it down there by using the dolly - but it would be wise to have help.  I don't want to damage it just trying to get it in there, and I think I want to wait until the work on the walls and ceiling is finished.  Installing this can be the piece de resistance! Best gift of the day!!  There is hope and new life from death!  The Mission Fig tree was not looking good this winter, and I thought maybe all was lost, but I see new growth!  I hope that it grows tall and strong this season.  it will be several years, before figs are produced again - but I love this tree, and am hopeful that we will have figs again someday.  And the bunnies are happy today as well.  I saw two of t...

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 tra...