Tree Updates (That No One Cares About)

Been way longer than I intended since I last posted.  I was going to try to update with pictures as things grew and what not, but I (obviously) have not done that.

So this is how each one is doing, in a vain attempt at neatness:
• Shortly after I planted them one of the forsythias died, I didn't water the second one enough awhile after that and it died too.  
• My Japanese maple just barely tried to sprout leaves, but they went brown, and it's as dead as a door nail too.  
• My elm has re-grown it's leaves, they're rather small, but it seems to be doing well enough.  I think they might be small because of this effect I read about at a bonsai website (forget which) that a 'false fall' or something would cause smaller leaves and would look better.  
• My red maple tree had been doing pretty well, it had some brown spots, but was otherwise okay.  Now, after I was gone for a week it's nearly completely brown, I'm guessing my parents let it get too dry or something.   
• My wisteria plant is doing amazingly well.  It's got really nice leaves and grows even if I try to pinch it back.
• My white pine is has sprouts and the beginning of new pine needles, the tips of the old needles are still a little brown, but I guess it's doing alright if it's growing new branches.
• My grape plant and my mom's lilac are doing alright, not growing a lot, nor dying, which is good.

Oh, and I saw a little tiny toad in the garden this morning.  It hopped away before I could get a picture though.

Trees~

I found somewhere to plant my forsythia right before I went off to ACen.  They're under my bedroom window.  I'm hoping my boyfriend isn't allergic to them when they bloom.  One of them had exactly one flower bud when I planted it, and now that one has leaves.  I don't think the other one has any leaves yet.  I might've killed it, but I'm going to keep watering it, it might just be trying to make buds.  My Japanese maple and my elm took forever to get leaves, but they have little green buds on them now.  I'm really happy they survived.  My mom's lilac, my white pine, and my yoshino are looking okay.  It looks like the yoshino really is deer resistant, they haven't eaten at it at all like they did our apple trees last year.  The red maple is doing really well, it's huge and has lots of leaves and everything.  I also dug a little oak tree up from the yard, and I'm trying to grow it in my bathroom until I can put it outside without squirrels eating or digging it up, which happened to the last three or so oaks I tried to plant in little pots...  Way before I got my trees from arborday.org, I got a green grape and a wisteria from meijer.  I planted them a little too early though, so they had a little bit of frost damage, but now they're both healthy and growing too.