Pacific Northwest Gardening: My Stick Trees Think It's Summer!!, 1 by katie59

katie59 wrote:
I was supposed to have received 4 Cornus Florida (flowering dogwood), 4 Cercis Canadensis (american redbud), 3 Koelreuteria Paniculata (golden raintree). I was thrilled at the golden raintree, as I haven't grown any to maturity before. And I had one mystery "stick".

They are all marked with temporary color on them so you can identify them. Yeah, right. :-)

So five of them have truly leafed out, I can see very swollen buds on a couple more. The first one, the mystery stick, Mary says might be a Lagerstroemia Indica (Crape Myrtl)e, if the color on it is right, based on a plant identification guide she had from Arbor Day. It was the first to make an appearance.

Pretty crazy lookin' as the only life is in the the two branches, which protrude out either side of a very frail-looking, almost straw-thin, stalk.