Even the pros mess up sometimes.

Planted deep as a coffin. Not really, but very deep. I just got back from a trip to St. Louis. The Missouri Botanic Garden is one of the of the top five public gardens in the country. Yet, the pros don’t always get it right all the time. It appears this poor tree was planted two feet lower than it should have been. (To be fair, it probably was the work of a well-meaning volunteer.) That’s my Dad showing how the tree desperately tried to develop roots closer to the surface. (Clicking on the image presents a lager image.) Too much energy to get feeding roots out near the surface and the death of the deeper roots led to the demise of this tree. Lesson for the gardener? Never plant a plant any deeper than it was grown in a pot or at the of color on the trunk of a bare root tree.

Silly Nuts

While this has little to do with roots, except that the peanut comes from the soil. Peanuts are not harvested above ground.

On my way to-and-from St. Louis, MO; via Southwest airlines, I got this packet of dry-roasted nuts with the silly warning. (Click on the image to read the text on the packet.)

Duh. Some people can't seem to understand the obvious.

(I guess they're also not Kosher.)

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