Noah went with his class to the Minnesota Arboretum a few days ago. He was ecstatic to get to bring home one sunflower plant and one tree seedling.
He told me he had it all planned out. He knew just where we would put the Kentucky Coffeetree seedling. And that it would grow and be big and beautiful and give our very sunny, but very small, city lot some shade.
Hearing that, I figured I should probably at least give the information a quick once-over.
Um, what? You sent my kid home with a tree seedling that is going to be wider than the size of my small city lot?
And outlive us?
I got thinking this
might be one time we
might have to do the opposite of the directions. We
might just have to plant this somewhere we just
might accidentally mow over it.
Then again, I have one little boy that is uber-excited to grow a tree. And how can I resist that missing tooth smile?
And so planting a Kentucky Coffeetree is in my future.
