Hi, first of congratulations for reviving your Coffee tree. It is pretty unusual for it to come back to life after spending two winters inside and no water for a couple of months. I'd say you tree is a tough survivor. The coffee tree (Gymnocladus dioica)is a tree that needs to be outside. It is ok to bring an outdoor bonsai inside for a day or two, but not longer, and not during the winter time. The trees in the temperate part of the countries are adapted to the winter resting period. By keeping it in the apartment for two winters you stressed this plant to its limits. I suspect that the green sprouts you are seeing right now are emergency shoots, basically a last ditch effort to get some photosynthesis going and to store some energy to make it past the next winter. I have a Japanese maple variety that also decided to sprout some fresh new leaves in late September. Not much you can do there but keep it watered and hope the tree will realize the error and move into fall mode soon. In terms of what to do at this point, that's tricky. Don't bring it back inside. Even a cool room in the house is mostly still too warm and you would definitely kill the seedling this time. I would leave the tree where it is for now, and hope that the dropping temperatures will signal it to stop growing and to prepare for winter. Keep it moist, but not waterlogged. Do you have the option of wintering it in a friends yard maybe? That would be the best option, to sink the tree with the pot into the ground, fill the ground soil back around the pot and cover the whole spot with potted tree with a good layer of mulch. If possible, choose a spot that doesn't get any sunlight and good protection form cold drying winds. Snow and rain are good, your tree needs those elements. If you don't have the option of sinking it into the ground you can also try to get a box or larger flower pot, fill it half styrofoam chips, sink your tree and pot into it and cover it with more styrofoam chips. Move it into a corner out of the sunlight and protect it from the cold drying winds. Check occasionally during the winter to make sure the soil is still moist. Water it if needed, but don't overdo it. Next spring, if it survived the winter, you need to carefully nurture it back to strength and health. Do some reading during winter on the care of over-wintering options for people with no yards and outdoor trees. Good luck with the plant, I hope it'll make it. Maybe others will give you their opinion and advice as well. Please let us know how it fared. Marc

Hey everyone! Thanks so much for all your kind compliments. I'm loving the way the livingroom turned out. The furniture companies put me through the ringer, a July through Feb. ringer but it was worth it. I went to the only nursery near me and they only seemed to have bushy trees in right now so I tried my two local Home Depot. The only palm they sell is majesty palm. So I'm not sure if the plants I purchased are any of the ones recommended. One of them said bird of paradise but I'm not sure if thats what it is. I saw a yucca and a cane palm but they didn't seem big enough they were small. They had a few small ponytail palms that were really cute but they didn't look healthy. Not that I know what healthy is LOL but I don't think most of the leaves are suppose to be dry and brown half way up. If someone would like to tell me what I ended up getting that would be great! Are they birds of paradise like the side of the plant says. I hope they live. (crosses fingers) . . .

Jonqpublic, and anyone else. We had lots of snow and cold, I didn't see a lot of ice on things, but I would say it was freezing temps sometimes, but then one day we had it slushy for one afternoon before the evening froze it all again. Today, I took pics of my 2 older Live oaks, the 2 year olds that I posted above. My most borderline plus some, plants. The bigger one has brown leaves, but they are still attached. The second tree has it's leaves still, and they are less brown, but still pretty ugly. I am happy they have done as good as they have in this horrible and NOT OVER winter. I took the second pic from the porch with the zoom, but with the snow you can see it good enough. After today we will be getting single digits at night and 20's in the day for the next 3 days/nights. Then 20's and 30's after . I would say this winter makes me say zone 6 is fine for these Live oak "late drop". If they last the rest of the winter, which I think they will.

I have a north facing window, but haven't found much to put in front of it that would do well (lots of trees in my neighborhood). You might consider a tall potted pothos climbing a moss pole. I have seen these at some Home Depot locations and Kroger grocery stores, and they are pretty striking with large leaves. Check out pic number 2 here: http://plantcaretoday.com/versatility-makes-golden-pothos-1-houseplant.html or check out these golden pothos: http://www.morningdewtropical.com/wholesale-plants/totem/ Heartleaf philodendron is a low-light tolerant climber also, although I haven't seen many sold on the moss poles. You could possibly DIY, though, with materials purchased from a craft store. Other option is supplemental fluorescent lighting if you want to use other plant varieties, but unless I had bright natural light, I personally wouldn't risk a tree there. Killed several of those already! : )