On Earth Day this year, I was looking up a great tree to buy, one that would grow really fast. So I found the Empress Tree and loved it. We got it exactly one month later, May 22. It was packaged beautifully in its little pot. We now moved it into a bigger pot on our deck and it will stay there until I plant it on Independence Day. Every few days there is a new set of leaves bigger than the last. I love my little tree, I saw a picture of one twice as tall as a human that was only two months old! The tree is surviving well in my windy Olathe Kansas Climate!