Son was determined this tree was dead or dying because it had yet to leaf out when he was here last. You can bet I sent him the full version size I had.   He knows a lot about plants but he hasn't been back in TX long enough to know all the tree leafing out issues. Especially a pistache they don't sell around here any more.

I was showing him big knots coming out on the branches. He said bee's, I ask how when there are no holes in the knots. I need to call the garden show guru's.

Hubby does need to prune back some of the branches for me as I have 3 tree's overlapping. Another thing for son and I to disagree about. As hot as it gets here I'd kind of like the forest look thank you. One of the trees is an Afghan Pine and the only evergreen in our back yard.

At one time folks were encouraged by the guru's to plant them and then years later cotton root rot started taking them out. So see guru's don't always know it all either. They are the same people that encouraged red tip photina's that hate our soil on maturity.

Today the wind is just raising a ruckus. Tomorrow a lot of branches from the blasted Chinese Tallow will probably be on the ground. Well not branches, twigs. lol

This is my new Rasberry Blast Supertunia. Looking at this I am betting next year it will be all solid with the amount of solid now.

But I loved it enough to buy it anyway.

I do believe in a bunch I detected a light fragerance, but it is hard to tell at a garden center.

And to think I was about ready to give up on pots this year.

Missed church today. While showering yesterday the 12oz. bottle of hair conditioner, full, fell through the back of the holder and straight onto my foot! While it isn't blue today, it isn't ready for a shoe.  Best be better by Tuesday, pool day.