Seattle Plastic Surgery, Dr. Lisa Lynn Sowder blogs about her newest obsession and Seattle’s lousy summer.
Last weekend my daughter and I went to Swanson’s, which is a lovely nursery in north Seattle. We had a light lunch at the cafe and then went browsing. (Now that I am most definitely a woman of a certain age, I would rather cruise a nursery than a boutique).
Marie and I saw it as the same instant, just sitting there like a beautiful young orphan, so tiny and out of place with the much taller quotidian deciduous ornamental trees. And we fell hard for this Japanese Umbrella Pine. I put it on our cart and found a staff member to ask about it. He could have said you need to water it with sterile thrice deionized water 4 times a day and apply platypus feces as a side dressing in the spring and fall and I would have still purchased this beauty. Actually all he said was that it will grow to 20 feet over 20 years and I can’t let it dry out.
And drying out won’t likely be a problem, at least this summer. While the rest of the nation is sweltering and frying, Seattle is experiencing the coldest and wettest summer in any one’s memory. But this is good for my sweet, beautiful Japanese Umbrella Pine. It is native to the rain forests of Japan and I’m sure I can keep it happy in the rain forest of Seattle.
So what does this have to do with plastic surgery? Okay, how’s this?
- Just because it’s cloudy, you still need sunscreen!
- And the real reason I do plastic surgery is to support my gardening habit.
Thanks for reading! Seattle Plastic Surgeon and Plant Freak, Dr. Lisa Lynn Sowder
@lisalynnsowder
