Purchase on 28 January 2019 for $10 from Avalon Nursery. This was in a row of Copper Beechs all about 2 foot in height and ready to plant.
I also picked up a Spanish Shawl to act as a ground cover. I’m imagining something like a bramble patch underneath a grown oak.
Straight into a pot with inorganic soil, and a dirt layer for the ground cover.
In a couple of weeks (13/2) the leaves were going dry, presumably because the smaller root base wasn’t ready to support the old leaves. This was so well shaped to begin with that I didn’t do much trimming.
I pulled most of the dry leaves off to let them regrow.
By March 2019 all the leaves had dropped.
And so begins a long pattern of ‘is this tree still alive?’ It grows slowly, buds late, and loses leaves early. More than any, this one tests my patience.
May 2019:
