Burning Ones

So I swore these things were dead. They looked dead. I know that people say that vines in particular look dead in the winter but I thought I had killed them. I bought them in April ‘07, and then didn’t plant them until October ‘07, leaving them in their pots for their roots to do spirals at the bottom (apparently a huge no-no). The only place to plant them was outside of our room where the soil is extremely rocky (Japanese rock garden, go figure). But they look amazing! I took this picture (on the right) and I’m very proud of it because I think it looks professional :-).

Fortunately since I thought they were dying in October when their leaves started wilting (they looked awful) I pruned the heck out of them in order to revive them. It totally paid off there are double the amount of leaves this year than last year. Its still going to be a couple of more years before they can even think about growing fruit but exciting nevertheless. The whole thing is constantly reminding me of the vine-parables that Jesus talks a lot about in John. It feels like a loose-loose situation: either your pruned because God’s growing you, or you’re thrown out and burned. It seems like its so much more beautiful to be pruned though… in time.

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