Low-hanging Fruit

Last time I was in Louisiana, we helped ourselves to some plants at my grandparents' house. I came home with a lemon tree, shrimp plants and Wandering Jew, among others that I'm not sure of their names.

I've been begging for fruit trees for years now. However, my man knows me well. We will never use all the fruits produced which will result in them falling on the ground, the dog will eat them, bugs will be drawn to them, and J will have to clean up the mess. He's kind of right. It took everything in his heart to put this lemon tree in the truck and cart it to Texas; I think I know why he caved.

Exhibit A: Said Lemon Tree

[The greenery that appears to be growing off the tree is actually from a plant on the fence. Understand there was nothing green about this tree.]

I swore I could bring it back to life, but honestly I was delusional. J came home when I was watering it and said, "Just making sure it doesn't catch fire, huh?" For the past 3 weeks I have given him a play-by-play on the tree's progress: still no leaves or fruit. Today I came home and found a fantastic surprise!

Exhibit B: Said Fantastic Surprise


A new and improved Meyer lemon tree was sitting in the planter looking as though my efforts finally paid off! I also have a fruitful lime tree in a beautiful new redwood box planter...it's as though I got my own Blog Fairy without every posting of my wishes!