Letter From the Desert: Deep Time II
Two weeks ago, when I planted it, this Catalina ironwood had a pencil-thin trunk maybe a yard tall. Now it’s shading the front part of the house, an eight-inch trunk holding up a few similarly sized branches.
Did I say two weeks ago? Sorry. Scratch that. I planted it the same summer I planted the chiranthofremontia, which five years later — on my birthda…
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