It could also be 'Holiday'. Your tree is very young, and the shape of the fruit may change up some, as it matures. 'Holiday' is frequently sold by the big box stores as a "dwarf" avocado tree. The easiest way to find out for sure is to call your Home Depot and ask to speak to the Garden Manager. Ask him/her where they buy their avocados from, as you're trying to ID the cultivar of something tagged as "dwarf avocado". I have had success in chasing down the grower of some of my trees to find out things like rootstock in this way. Patty S.

Probably the cultivar that made the rounds recently. I'm growing one, not remembering the name at the moment. Slugs are apt to spoil it here.

I started to say my garden has been mostly stable and as I thought about it, I would have to say it has been constantly evolving. I started with a pretty clean slate, ripping out every shrub on the property and installing new shrubs and many of those initial shrubs are still here. But I've moved a lot of perennials and some of the shrubs, sometimes multiple times, (g) and every year or two I've tried to complete a project that also changed the garden. And now I'm planning to renovate beds again next spring. What has been fairly stable, are the plants themselves. I move them around but I usually keep everything, with some notable failures, as with Lobelias and Astilbes that I learned the hard way need more moisture than I have. Or Salvias, etc, that need better drainage. And with a healthy dose of new additions most years. But this year, I suddenly was ready to pull out a lot of plants I've had from the beginning and want to start over. One month I just loved the look of them and the next month I just had to take them out. :-) Why does that happen? I do keep every plant tag, but I rarely look at it again. I keep them all in a couple of plastic shoeboxes. I keep a spreadsheet instead that keeps up with what's in and what's out. I'm curious to take a look at how many of my initial plants are still here. I'd say I have areas that are stable, where I am happy with the way it has worked out and I look forward to that every year. I have a 5ft wide alleyway that I redid along the garage, that I planted all at once and I haven't touched it again for 5 years until I had to rip out a few overgrown items this fall. Then there are other areas which I'm still not happy with and I keep adding and deleting and a couple of those beds have looked pretty different from year to year. But I would like to stabilize at least half of the garden. I do have one bed that I plan to always be changing. It's my 'free for all' bed, where I don't have to follow any grand design, I can just do whatever I want from one season to the next and pull out everything and start over any time if I want to. I have a lot of fun with that bed. But there is that old saying, 'the best laid plans of mice and men often go astray.' So change is going to happen even when you're not planning on it. Like Kevin's fence.

You got four copper tags for a buck. I bought a mess of them. No, you can't have them. I have also used small terracotta pots (written on with ceramic marker) Shells (also written on) Pot shards Egg shells (blown, whole) Bits of slate off of local roofs.