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.  

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...