When Sebastian Wren thinks about the thousands of Texas mountain laurels out in the Hill Country, where he grew up, he wonders how many of the trees were planted by his mother. Julie had a habit of driving the country roads near their property with her window down, flinging neat packages of laurel seeds wrapped in wet newspaper at the craggy landscape. She’d prepare the seeds ahead of time by painstakingly removing them from their pods, then scoring each individual bean’s hard outer shell and soaking it to best ensure its chance of sprouting.“Oh, nobody understood what motivated my mother to do anything,” Wren said when I asked what spurred her guerilla seed bombing. “She was an eccentric. Who knows. It was clear she took…
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