If you ask me, there are certain levels of achievement on the green-thumbed scale. First, plain and simple, is keeping a houseplant alive. Second is growing your own food from a vegetable garden. The pinnacle? Planting your own tree in your backyard and watching it grow as the years go by.
Actually, once established, trees are actually a far easier type of foliage to introduce to your backyard than more common flowers or shrubs. Once they're rooted and as long as they have the right conditions, the rest is mostly down to mother nature. The trick from our end is planting them when the time is right, and it's actually something many of us get wrong.
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