Contorted Larch Tree - LOST - August 2020
I was out watering some things and noticed that the Horstmann's Recursive Contorted Larch Tree that I bought and planted earlier this year is now gone. It is now just the tiny trunk. Seems someone yanked at it and pulled the limb(s) right off as I found it laying next to it. Bummer. My fault for not putting up a barrier around the tree to protect it. (Note to self: protect things from rabbits AND kids going forward.) It was a TINY tree, but now it is in the LOST column. I posted about the Lombardy Poplar that I lost last month here . Two in a row - not good. This Horstmann's Recursive was the 51st tree planted. 51 trees across four planting seasons. (For now...) 43 of those trees still alive. But there are signs of trouble on a number of other trees (including some of our apple espalier trees, two of our Chanticleer Pears, the Red Valley Sun Maple and the Crimson King Maple). That would knock us under 30...