Rescue or Follie

    This one was in decline for at least a couple of weeks and went south this past week.

So drastic decline requires drastic measures and those measures I just took today.

    I notice yesterday that this potted beauty had sent out a couple of roots out the bottom of it's

pot that was sitting on the bare earth, if you will. That was a good sign, but! Looking at the root

ball out of it's pot there were more dire things happening, one, there was a nest of ants, which had

to be excised, which required a total soilectomy, just made that up, that spell check is having a 

fit. In the process of flushing any signs of the old and I mean really old soil, perhaps nearly

seven to eight years old. It being a stunted plant in itself, most like a genetic dwarf from seed. 

All the more reason to take some serious action, otherwise it would soon be gone, but not forgotten, 

if you get my gist.

   With that out of the way, here I present the newly reimaged dwarf Purple, I believe, Tabebuia

tree and in this case, which lends itself nicely to the art of Bonsai.

   This time of the year is a toss up as to which environment is the least hostile, indoors with A/C as

dryer than a Desert or outside in a partially shaded extreme heat and humidity, as you can see here in

the photo above, which can change.  Desperate measures for desperate conditions