Sustainable Me - Space for Creativity and Backyard Bunnies

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...