ginko | Anything is Possible!

The ginko I adopted seems to be doing well. She hasn’t grown much above ground, but hopefully, her roots are growing deeper and stronger.

I love her golden leaves with their unique fan-like shape reminding me of butterflies. Click the photo for a better view.

Below is a mature ginko in front of a church a couple miles away. I was in a hurry so snapped this through my car windshield.

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There’s a lot of tree planting going on in my city. That’s a good thing, but we also need to do a better job of preserving the mature trees, the canopy. During the dry spring and summer, some of the newly planted trees were dying. I signed up to adopt one that had been planted a few miles from my house. My job has been to give this tree five gallons of water during any week that lacked significant rain. Sometimes, I give a little water to the tree nearby who has supposedly been adopted by another person.

When I first visited my adopted tree in the spring, I was surprised to see it terribly bent over from the wind. Someone had put a stick next to it to try to prop it up, but it wasn’t working.