I support the basic premise of the Arbor Day Foundation so I gave them $20 and they were to send me 10 trees as a thank you gift. Now I knew the trees wouldn't be much as a thank you for a $20 donation. Well in the US mail there comes a plastic envelope about 6 inches wide and about 18 inches long. It has 10 seedlings in it selected as to varieties hardy and desireable in my area. I got flowering dogwood, redbud, maple, rain tree, and on and on. I'm instructed to either heel them in or temporarily plant, expecting to transplant in a year or two. I'll be happy if half of the little things survive. My 6-7 year old pine forest started out as 14 trees and dwindled in 2 years to just 2 trees. The remaining two look to have died in the current drought.

Planting trees is a GOOD THING.

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