Labor Day update

I almost called this post "Fall update". We aren't quite there yet, but in Tahoe it is getting into the 30s some nights, and occasional aspens, especially the small ones, are turning yellow. During the day, though, temps are still in the 80s.

I transplanted two incense cedars that I had grown from seed into the environment. These are the first trees that I've personally grown from seed and then moved into the ground. It is going to be very painful if they die. They are good-looking trees and I'll miss having them on my porch. My baby giant sequoias, as I called them in my last post, are still under 15 inches, so I decided to hold off on planting them until next year.

My numerous other plantings are doing well. The white fir that served as our Christmas tree and was transplanted in spring is alive and well with bright green new growth. It has no growth from its old leader, though--those buds never broke. So we may have to wait a few years for a new leader to develop. The subalpine larch that I planted in spring appear to have survived the summer, although they've looked pretty awful since the day I planted them. Hopefully they'll survive the winter and come back with a vengeance.

I think I'm ready for the snow now. Bring it on!