Why you may ask?
Well, you see my mom and my adviser gave me saplings. These saplings, however, were kept in dark and cold storage areas... And they were asleep when we received them. By asleep, I mean they were literally sticks with roots; so we now have these sticks planted in their giant orange buckets (which I drilled holes in for drainage) and seated on the deck in my backyard.
They do not have leaves yet.
It just looks like we decided to plant sticks in dirt upright and water them.
Yeah, I feel really weird about it but we have trees, at least!
In fact, one of the saplings is budding and showing green on it already. Hopefully they will get more soon. ;-)
