Apple tree
Last night, a beautiful woman visited me in my dream. She wore a long, silvery green dress, and when she approached me began sobbing. She lived in the apple tree, and was sobbing in pain. I held her,and realized through carelessness and ignorance, we had mutilated her limbs.
Today I looked at the tree, and am at a loss of what to do to. It is a graft of two trees. One tree trunk is silver in color, the other a gnarled familiar brown. It has been neglected, and has many upright branches reaching towards the sky as if startled. Each of those upward branches needs to removed, but the lateral branches, in our ignorance, have been cut short. I am not sure how to save her.
Jennifer suggested a strong nettle tea as nourishing. That appeals in an etheric sense. I have compost, but am unsure if placing compost on the ground around the base of the tree would be helpful or not. I need more information.
posted by La Uva @ 2:36 PM
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What a powerful dream. I don't suppose a tree doctor is very cheap. Maybe that tree needs a lot of hugs and conversation and time. Maybe if you spent a lot of time with her, with an open and listenting heart, and trust that she will guide you? -michelle
We made so many mistakes. I feel disheartened. I have been studying the tree, and I am not sure how to fix some of what we did. Andy wants to cut all the limbs off the brown portion (which the silver portion is grafted onto). (1) can the silver grafted portion survive if the brown (rooted) portion no longer has any limbs, and (2) I feel terrible doing that! plus I chopped an important lateral limb off the silver portion when I first was pruning (when I knew even less of what I was doing). I feel so badly at the increased harm. I'm not sure what the best solution is. I wish we could afford an arborist. I just put out a call to timebucks for someone into pruning. Hmm. sigh.
Have you read The Findhorn Garden? I'm pretty sure they have a website, but the neat thing in the book is how they described growing miracles in some depleted rocky dirt in a place in Scotland where nothing previously grew, simply by using positive and powerful meditation and communication with the plants and soil. They describe the fairies and nymphs that live in their garden. I love it. Probably not any help on the technical end, but good inspirational stuff.
I wish I knew about trees and grafting and all that. I tend to agree with you and think that if the roots are the brown part, then don't cut the limbs. Do you know how to check to see if a limb is actually alive vs. dormant?
they described growing miracles in some depleted rocky dirt in a place in Scotland where nothing previously grew, simply by using positive and powerful meditation and communication with the plants and soil. That's a good thought. I need to do some atoning nourishment, as well. Strong nettle tea. It was hard to be with today ~ I felt so much guilt, but I want the tree to survive and be strong and beautiful.
YOU were my tree! ;)
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