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Post by peano on May 13, 2024 4:15:04 GMT
We have a big black oak next to our driveway, and I noticed last year that an acorn must have ended up in a garden on the side of our house, because a sapling was growing next to my catmint and echinacea. I wanted to save it, so had our yard guys dig it up a couple of weeks ago and replant next to a space where we had another tree removed a few years ago. I wasn't sure it was going to take, because it looked like a two-foot high stick coming out of the ground. But I just noticed yesterday it is getting branches and leaves! It's thrilling because I'm trying to plant more natives in our yard.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 13, 2024 7:07:00 GMT
Glad your 'baby' tree is doing well!
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on May 13, 2024 11:05:54 GMT
I totally get your excitement. I feel similarly about things I plant/transplant in my yard.
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Post by mom on May 13, 2024 12:32:21 GMT
How exciting! You'll have to keep us updated on how fast it grows!
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Post by rainangel on May 13, 2024 12:49:25 GMT
I feel you!
I planted a couple of apple trees in my front yard last fall. I have very shallow soil there, so I was worried it wouldn't plant roots, but they are both blooming now!
It's very exciting!
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Post by kristi521 on May 13, 2024 12:56:12 GMT
I have a black thumb, except for with succulents for some reason. So I would be over the moon if something like this worked out for me.
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Post by mikklynn on May 13, 2024 12:58:53 GMT
I totally understand! We had a red maple die after 2 years. I noticed a little growth from the roots we hadn't removed, so I placed a tomato cage over it to protect it from mowing. 30 years later, it's a giant, beautiful tree.
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Post by twistedscissors on May 13, 2024 13:31:37 GMT
My ex husband dug up a pine tree out of the woods near our home and planted it in our yard. It’s been 25 yrs and that little 12 inch tall sprout is now probably 20 feet wide at the bottom and at least 40 feet tall.
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Post by melanell on May 13, 2024 13:49:49 GMT
That's awesome! We had to have an old 75-80 foot maple tree removed from the front of our property last fall, and I have now found some maple saplings in a small garden right behind where the tree used to be. So I'm trying to decide if I want to replace the tree we took down with one of these or just move the sapling elsewhere. On the one hand, I did like having a tree there, but on the other it did get worryingly tall for something so close to our house, so perhaps I'll just move it to the back of our property which backs up to a wooded area instead. And then choose something that doesn't grow so tall to put in the empty place from our old tree.  |
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Post by Tearisci on May 13, 2024 14:05:01 GMT
How fun! I have a tree that was planted in my yard a couple of years ago and I always get happy when it gets leaves in the spring which means it survived the winter!
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Post by monklady123 on May 13, 2024 14:19:19 GMT
Yay for your baby tree!
We have a volunteer tree also, a crepe myrtle. It randomly appeared in a friend's yard and she asked me if we wanted it. It was only about a foot tall when we planted it. It was touch and go for the first year and then it decided it liked our yard (they like sun, and we planted it in our front yard which gets sun all afternoon). Now it's taller than our house (a one-story house). It actually needs to be pruned on top.
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Post by Lexica on May 13, 2024 14:45:19 GMT
I get it. Especially with a tree!
My mom had a way with any plant and when she would notice one of my pots that was looking a bit down, she would take it home and eventually return it as a much bigger, thriving new plant. This is when I was working two jobs and raising my son, so I admit to letting some things slide. I am much better about it now and will be trying my hand at a large raised garden on the far side of my house. Mom’s vegetable garden and fruit trees were amazing and I hope some of that talent is in my DNA.
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Post by PLurker on May 13, 2024 14:55:50 GMT
My eldest gave me a small, barely there lilac bush when I moved. Last year it still looked like nothing much more than a stick. It was a tad disheartening.
This spring I look out and that little thing has decided it is time to go and grow. Dozens and dozens of leaves and life on that "stick". Heart happy. I get it.
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Post by quietgirl on May 13, 2024 16:23:11 GMT
Oh that so great! Not a little thing at all.
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Post by supersoda on May 13, 2024 17:12:32 GMT
Awww, that’s great!
I’m in constant battle with the squirrels who plant acorns all over my yard and spend a chunk of time each spring pulling up tiny saplings!
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Post by crazy4scraps on May 13, 2024 18:30:30 GMT
I know that feeling too! We had a beautiful, perfect pine tree at the lake cabin that we sadly had to take down because it was too close to the new foundation. We planted a few pinecones from it and were so excited to see that four of them grew! Well, three of them ended up dying when we had a particularly hard winter, but the one survivor is now about 1.5’ tall! We put it in one spot temporarily but we need to find it a better permanent location soon before the roots get too established.
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Post by RosieKat on May 13, 2024 21:41:24 GMT
I think growing things makes most people really happy. You don't have to be a gardener or "into that," there's just something magical about new life and watching it grow!
We have a squirrel-planted transplanted (translation: several acorns planted by squirrel, we transplanted about 6 saplings) red oak that is now taller than our neighbor's 2-story house. I'm guessing it's maybe 15 years old? It's so fun!
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Post by caangel on May 14, 2024 3:21:21 GMT
I got a potted stick of a lemon tree a couple of years ago from my Buy Nothing group. Until this year I'd get lots of flowers and tiny beginnings of a fruit and then they'd just shrivel up and fall off. This year I have a handful of fruits that have gotten much bigger and a dark green color. I'm excited that I may actually get lemons this year. I'm hoping they are meyer lemons! 🤞
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Post by KiwiJo on May 14, 2024 22:29:50 GMT
I planted an acorn that I found on a day out with the Brownies when I was 8, and remember the excitement when it sprouted.
But that was nothing compared to when it grew its first acorns! I was then in my forties, still living in the same house (we bought it from Dad after he remarried after Mum died, and he moved into his new wife’s house).
I felt as though i had grandchildren - my baby had babies of its own!!!
When we moved out of that house a couple of years ago to move into a retirement village, we were asked if we had any pets we wanted to bring with us - I replied “no, but I do have a sixty-year-old oak tree…..”
It was harder to leave my tree than to leave my old family home where I had lived for 58 of my 68 years.
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