The day I moved into my house, 17 years ago, I signed up for a street tree.
The block was barren – the two trees on the corner were half dead – and I longed for sidewalk shade.
Have you seen Purple Stem?
Two years later, almost to the day, a small ornamental cherry tree appeared when I wasn’t paying attention.
Its slender trunk was held high by a pair of robust wooden stakes.
A while later, a crew came and planted a row of Belgian blocks around it.
You’re lucky, they told…
