Thank you! In that case, I will care for it as long as possible inside and then offer it to a friend. To be honest, I was hoping it would be possible to have a sort of "living wall" using the grapevine. My room faces the sunrise, so the plant would receive light in the morning, and artificial light once the morning light becomes weak. Any specific reasons why you don't think it would survive indoors?

What have been your average high temperatures during the day this week? Has it been excessively hot there? Then again, a 14 foot tall Willow must have had many of its roots cut during the B&B process. Consider also, how did you handle the Burlap when you planted the tree? Once you got the tree into your planting hole, did you tuck down the burlap so that none of it is within the top 4-6 inches of backfill soil once you finished planting the tree and was just ready to do the final step of putting on the mulch? ********************************************* Your answer to all the above questions could help lead to revelations on why your tree is beginning to show signs of transplant shock. As long as the sides of the burlap is not high enough to be wicking the moisture in the root ball up to the surface where it can more easily evaporate away, simply water, water, water. Willow trees love lots of water, and two days of rain is not an assurance that the tree is getting enough water. The rains could have been fast runoff rains which did not deeply soak the entire rootball, or the rains, you mentioned, may have been too light in overall number of inches that fell. Another thing to consider, is the content of the soil in the rootball. Is the soil around the roots the same as the virgin soil in the tree's planting hole? More specifically, can moisture move through the rootball and the virgin soil around the planting hole at the same rate?

Hubby brought my bag of soil into the kitchen yesterday, is all thawed out, containers are ready to go, tomorrow I will be buying my paint pen,and I am set to go. Ahhhhhhhh, almost, still deciding on which seed to sow for "Life" See ya all dancing "Nekkid"under our clothes,under the full moon.Can't wait! cAROL

That would make sense. They seemed very scared of the door opening and my dogs or me being outside. That surprised me because the last 2 years we could all sit on the deck and they were very relaxed about getting close to us. Guess I'll just have to wait and see.