tree project

  2012  2013 Hiroshi,  As promised, photos of the Persimmon Tree that started as a seedling on the 51st floor overlooking Ground Zero and a few years later transplanted in the ground in North Adams, MA.  Pictures from 2012 and 2013! She looks pretty happy! ---Megan Karlen

" This tree was the one that we had in a high rise on a window sill overlooking Ground Zero. Well, it's now in the Berkshires :) We planted it last fall, we wrapped it with hay and burlap to brace itself against the snow, we unwrapped it this spring and before we knew it it was filling out with amazing leaves from the ground up. You can see the top of the persimmon as a stick with no leaves. This is how tall it grew before we planted it. Now the leaves are sprouting from the soil level up and it's filling out beautifully!" --- Megan Karlen

"Hello Hiroshi, I wanted to send you pictures of our Persimmon tree because she's been doing so well this summer! She was in the show at the Horticultural Society. They took very good care of her. They said she was very healthy. She did have a little bit of a white bug type thing under her leaves and they explained that that often times comes from the soil that we buy in the store. They sprayed her leaves with dish soap and water and the little white bugs left. We brought her home and I got concerned that the underside of her leaves were going to get the bugs again so I started misting under her leaves. I have no idea if I'm right about this but I feel like it made her feel tickled and good because now she's been growing like crazy! I've sent 3 pictures. One of them shows a leaf that is not the typical shape. It is kind of heart-shaped. Is this normal for persimmons? There were two and then one grew out into the typical oval leaf shape. The other one is continui...

"Our Hibaku seedling (Persimmon Tree) lives on the 51st floor of a Tribeca highrise. She lives with myself and my partner Jackie and she resides on one of the many window sills in the living room. The poetry here is that here grows this little tree, who's genetics survived the man-made calamity of Hiroshima, thriving on a sunny windowsill in full view of Ground Zero. Emerson said: Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. That's something to learn from. She is a joy to have."

Megan Karlen with newly planted pot on May 12th at "Eat Clay or Die" exhibition curated by Susannah Tisue and Michele Quan in May at Greenwich House Pottery. "I'm thrilled! I was worried that I had over watered it. I was fretting that I wasn't tender enough. And you know what? Through all of that worry the little seed just took its time and popped up through the soil when it was good and ready. Here is a picture of the sprouting persimmon the morning I noticed it and then a picture with me and the sprouting sprout! What a joy to behold! Thanks again, so much, for such a great project!" ---Megan Karlen Congrats, Megan!! "Our Hibaku seedling (Persimmon Tree) lives on the 51st floor of a Tribeca highrise. She lives with myself and my partner Jackie and she resides on one of the many window sills in the living room. The poetry here is that here grows this little tree, who's genetics survived the man-made calamity of Hiroshima, thriving on a sunny windo...