It's too hot to garden in the afternoon, so I've been swimming laps for exercise and to cool off. While doing the backstroke one day, I noticed that a Chinese elm was growing in the bed behind the rock wall on the left. The HOA uses a lot of Chinese elms in landscaping the common areas, so this one must have rooted from a seed dropped over the block fence. It has multiple trunks and is about 6 feet high at this point. I missed seeing it earlier because its foliage at this point is somewhat similar to the cape honeysuckle I planted behind the waterfall. No wonder I wasn't seeing many blossoms from the cape honeysuckle! It has been nearly crowded out by the tree!
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