One Big Happy by Rick Detorie for August 26, 2010

And that’s what makes it even more of a shame. Suzette was so young.

I’m glad Ruthy’s dealing with it as well as she is.

Trees may be quiet, but they sure do a lot.

I’m surprised there are no comments about the “primal life”

To a six-year-old, “prime of life” and “primal life” must sound a lot alike. They do to me, and I’m 72.

It’s young, maybe it can still be taped up and mend?

I taped up a baby peach tree that was felled by a big wind & it’s doing just fine… no fruit, but new leaves! Give it a go, Ruthie!

Even if the trunk’s dead, it’ll probably come back from the roots. Although Ruthie may not consider Resurrected Suzette to be her tree…

Fruit trees and other softwoods will heal a whole lot better than an oak or something. Indeed, they’re often grafted on purpose.

But in my city they never wait to find out. If a tree is deemed to be wrecked they just rip it out and (one then hopes) replace it.

Avon, one reason that fruit trees are grafted on purpose is to get good fruit-bearing variety branches with sturdier, pest-resistant root stock.