When I first visited Urbana and Champaign, Illinois I fell in love with the Katsura tree.
In fall, the leaves are a lovely apricot to orange color and they shimmer in the breeze like Aspen or Cottonwood leaves. I searched the internet and finally found what I thought would grow up to be the 15 or 20 foot Katsura tree that I first met and loved in Illinois. This is this tree's 3rd spring in Missouri. It has grown hardly at all but it looks healthy and the leaves are the shape I remember. Instead of one trunk, this tree came with a half of dozen. I'm okay with that. I can live with that. But I want this tree to start growing taller! It is supposed to grow taller and block our yard from the neighbor's back deck -- and I want to admire the beautiful apricot leaves in the fall. I think this is the growing year for my Katsura tree!
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Can't wait to see that tree! Hope it doesn't disappoint!
Yesterday I bid on a Katsura Tree on ebay! Imagine, bidding on a tree! I didn't get it but maybe I'll go put another quarter on that bid!
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