I got him a garden gnome.
The tree was about five and a half feet tall when we planted it (about my height) and now it's about six and a half feet tall (about Chris' height). Great progress for its first year in the ground, I must say.
It's a bit of a strange tree, with enormous white blooms in the spring and big waxy green leaves that fall off in June. We sometimes have to tell people that no, it's not dying - its fall is June.
What I often forget is that it has a fall trick too when it makes the most amazing pods of bright red seeds where the blooms had been the previous spring.
Naturally, the squirrels love them. Stupid squirrels.
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