Buds! and Energy Healing for an Asian Pear Tree

Asian Pear Buds!  Looking Good!

We had a little snow a couple of days ago and I was concerned about our Asian pear trees.  As you can see from this photo they're actually starting to bud!  Hopefully the weather is going to get progressively warmer.  I wonder if we'll get a few blossoms this year.  I don't know what that means for fruit, but it would be cool to see our babies bear flowers.

As I inspected each tree today, most of them looked good. Some of them were a little more developed than others. And there was one in the lower right corner of our orchard which didn't look so good.  It looked like it had sprouted a blossom which died, and the twiggy trunk was a little yellow.  I immediately texted Bob with a photo.  How could all of the other trees look great and this one be struggling?  

And then the truth came out... Apparently when Bob had cut down a honey locust tree over on that side of the orchard, the tree fell on that one little Asian pear tree.  So Bob's nonchalant response was to suggest that I give it some energy.  I am an energy healer who has mostly worked with humans who aren't budding to well. I have worked with some animals, but plants are still a little foreign to me. So there I stood out there in the open with neighbors looking on...eyes closed, hands grasped lovingly around this little twig of a tree, trying not to look to conspicuous.  I basically called in all the helpful energies who might be available for the benefit of these trees.  Then I let myself be the conduit between heaven and earth and allowed the energy to run deep into the ground around the tree... from my energy root system to the tree's.  I don't know if it will help. But it did remind me that I want to delve more deeply into learning about nature intelligence from Michaelle Wright Small of Perelandra.

Energy Healing for an Asian Pear Tree.
I hope he doesn't decide to cut down the other honey locust tree.   

p.s. I was informed that only the very top of the ailing tree was hit, and it wasn't that bad.  Well a little extra TLC never hurts any living thing.

The First Experimental Acre

Bob unloading the trees

Our first 126 trees arrived March 4th, complete with directions for planting.  Because we were just recovering from a deep freeze followed by rain and thawing, we opted to plant them 3 days later.  Bob had already dug the preliminary holes in what we thought would be well-drained soil.  Much to our dismay there were puddles of water standing in some of the holes.  We're not sure if this is the result of the red clay holding in the soaking from the sky, or if there is water under the ground which is rising up.  At this point we're taking an experimental attitude and hoping for the best.

It took us 3 times longer to plant than we expected.  By the end of the first day, with 3 of us working..

Bobby driving the tractor

4 if you count Sadie our dog who was there for moral support and snacks, we had only planted the first 42 (the Shinko's).  And in the consecutive 2 days after, we managed to get in all of the 20th Centuries and the Hosui's.  You wouldn't think that it would take so much to plant 4 ft tall sticks in the ground, but it was quite an ordeal.  The soil started drying out on the second and third days, and all but the holes which were dug in the vein of clay got much more manageable.

This is well drained soil?

Sadie inspecting our work

We have had some nice rain since planting which solved our issues of giving them an initial watering without a ready source of water on the property.  And now we have some sunshine to balance out the moisture.  Hopefully Spring will click in for real very soon, so that our experimental crop has a chance to flourish.

I'm already visualizing round, sweet, crispy fruit.  Whether we get it from these trees in a few years or the grocery store remains to be seen.  The fact that I blessed each one as I put them in the ground, and that Bob (with his gifted green thumb) went through the orchard and touched each one after they were all planted, must surely count for something.

Someday there will be beautiful blossoms and fruit on these trees!