It's alive!

Last year, my first spring in my little yellow house, I had no idea what I wanted to put in the flower beds. My house was pretty much a blank slate from the previous owners and it made this new homebuyer completely dumbfounded when it came to gardening.

There was one thing I knew I wanted in my yard though, a flowering crabapple tree. One of those pretty little decorative trees that flowers in the springtime. I worked really hard and worked up a flowerbed in the front yard and planted my very own crabapple tree in it. Sadly, that tree only lasted a few weeks, maybe a month. I'll never know exactly what I did wrong. Did I over water? Did I over fertilize? Can you over fertilize a tree? 

This year, I'm giving it another go. So far, so good. The flowers have bloomed on the tree and that's already farther than I got last year!