Rewilding My Lot

My Mexican Olive (Cordia boissieri) tree arrived here last fall and then took quite a beating in January 2024 when we had a major freeze.

I recently wrote about how I thought I had lost this tree in the freeze and then how it has made a strong recovery, so I won’t repeat that here.

What is new now is that I am seeing flowers for the first time. Mexican Olives can bloom year-round although they do it most profusely from late spring to early summer. In my case, this tree is still establishing and so I am grateful for whatever it chooses to produce this year.

I had been watching a single cluster of flower buds for a few days. One day I saw a little white revealed.

And the next day there were two delicate blooms.

So far I only see one group of buds, although there is plenty of other growth happening elsewhere on the tree so perhaps there will be more. I’m not concerned, though. This is only the second year here for this Mexican Olive and it had a somewhat traumatic start, so the priority has to be getting strongly established.