Thriving Tulip Tree

On April 25, 2014, Mariel went with me and Roger to Red Butte Garden for Arbor Day. They were giving out free tulip trees. Mariel was very excited to receive one and she planted it in our backyard. She took good care of it. You can't really see much of the green leaves up against the pink blossoms, but they were there.


The story of the tragedy and hope of the tulip tree is documented here, and here.

Some of these pictures below are from those posts.

After the first tragedy

A couple of weeks later

A little later that year

Still struggling in the fall of 2015

Mariel gave a talk in church relatively recently where she mentioned how much faith and care were required of her to help her not give up and to help the tree along. Then this spring, we had a late freeze and most of the leaves froze off. Once again, we weren't sure if it would survive. I didn't take pictures for a couple of years because I wasn't hopeful.

But here it is today, thriving. 

I'm so glad she didn't give up.

It's still undergone recent opposition. 

Mariel said that her dad mowed into it last week. 

He promised to avoid it in the future.