Old Man of the Garden

This is my favourite tree in the garden. I suspect he's quite old and has grown from a seed that landed on a rock. His root system has embraces the entire rock.

This year I've started watering him when I water the decorative and vegetable plants in the garden and he has responded beautifully with new growth all over. I don't know why we never normally think to water the trees also.

Every morning I greet him and he welcomes me with a shower of energy.

I asked my husband if he had tried talking to the tree and although he wouldn't admit to it, I have caught him coughing at a coconut tree to stimulate it before.