In October 2021, James painstakingly planted and caged an Eve's necklace (Styphnolobium affine) that was gifted to us by Matt Murrah. The tree was doing pretty well, although one large branch had recently turned brown and died. Then came February's ice storm. We lost some branches in our yard but not that many. In the Meadow, we noticed that a limb on a neighboring live oak had cracked. Sure enough, in March it fell...right on the Eve's necklace and its cage! As you can see from the photo, the huge limb fell in the middle of the tree. The Eve's necklace's dead limb is on the ground to the right. Its surviving half is to the left. We'd thought maybe we could leave the tree uncaged. Nope. Neighborhood deer have been nibbling on the leaves.
Yesterday, James worked more than an hour to put another cage around the young tree. When Matt got an update on our Eve's necklace, he texted back: "Just think: if that sucker can make it through drought, oak branch attacks, and deer nibbles, it can make it through anything!" I'm sure hoping so, Matt!
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