Plants with healing properties

[Mary Stetler]

A friend brought me two soft wood maybe 10 inch clippings in April. Two weeks in water in the sun on a work bench. Good soil and a gallon pot for six weeks. Now one is around four foot plus and the other one almost there. We had a big one in our yard in Texas. After five years it took a big man to reach around the trunk. So pleasant in the constant wind. New owners took it down.

I had a large one when I got the farm. It is old now so drops a lot of dead branches but I will leave it. A young one seeded by itself but it is too close to a couple of wild weeping willows and will probably get shaded out. I am waiting for a perfect branch to make an interesting cane out of.