pineapples

no, we don't have pineapples growing! but it does look like it. back in november, we took the sagos out of mama and daddy's yard in mobile. they had gotten too big for their yard and dr. and i could not deal with the ginormous lantana that blocks our walkway every summer. we decided to dig the lantana up and plant it along our neighbors driveway on the side of the house because there was nothing over there. we transplanted the sago palms and planted them where the lantana had been growing. they were the talk of the street. everyone would stop and ask us questions about them when we were working outside. immediately after we transplanted them, the fronds began developing brown spots. we didn't think anything of it because surely a plant would kind of suffer from being transplanted. well the spots turned into entire fronds turning brown and drying up. now people would stop and ask us if our palms had died. i gave the palms a chance and didn't want to admit that they had died.

finally i decide that neighbors kept asking if they were dead because they just looked really tacky. dr. told me to suck it up and cut off all the brown fronds. so... i cut them off. then dr. came outside and said " oh my gosh, you cut them all off". I said " you told me too, they were all brown". so we had two stumps sitting in the front of our house where dead palm fronds used to be.

even though they were bear i still couldn't admit they were dead so we were going to transplant them to the backyard thinking that maybe they were getting too much sun on the north side of the house. luckily we never got around to transplanting them again. about a week ago, we noticed a little green coming out of the center. and there we have it, the sagos are still alive! apparently the sagos were just a little shocked and feel right at home now. we have our neighbor's interest back and they are commenting that they thought the sagos were dead but they look so neat now!

good thing we have some patience! very cool!