As a soft rain fell yesterday morning, a crew from Forestry and Horiculture of the Parks' Department, planted a small Red Oak in the only empty tree pit around the monument in Carroll Park. This would not be such an unusual event, except for the fact that this is a special little tree.
You see, dear Reader, in 1993, when the park was renovated, another tree was planted in that same spot, amidst the old giant elms. But it was mutilated just a few years later and died.
Others were planted to replace it over the years, but they, too, died, their bark stripped or their branches broken off.
But I have hope for this tree. Maybe I am too optimistic, but maybe we can all keep an eye on it.
What say you, fellow Carroll Gardeners. Can we keep this one alive long enough for it to grow into a mature tree?
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