I just planted two butternuts which are bare sticks. It will take 10 years for them to be saplings. Unfortunately one of them won’t achieve even that. I ran over it with the riding mower.
My attachment for gardening, trees and nature seems to be growing as I get older. Perhaps when we garden or plant trees it gives us the opportunity to be part of something bigger than ourselves? It is not teally an end but a beginning?
Enjoyed this post. A gardener is never done. I'm 75 this year and my garden efforts have shrunk to four planters of salad vegetables and flowers, and a so-far 3 foot tall lemon cutting. I'll never be strong enough again to actually plant a tree in the ground but the trees I planted through my 40s and 50s are now between 20 and 40 years old. Tall, impressive kauris, some of which will build a house each when they are mature, and riverine eucalyptus that will develop nesting hollows in another hundred years. Gardening is Keeping the Earth.
I just planted two butternuts which are bare sticks. It will take 10 years for them to be saplings. Unfortunately one of them won’t achieve even that. I ran over it with the riding mower.
My attachment for gardening, trees and nature seems to be growing as I get older. Perhaps when we garden or plant trees it gives us the opportunity to be part of something bigger than ourselves? It is not teally an end but a beginning?
::::ahhhhh:::: thank you.
Enjoyed this post. A gardener is never done. I'm 75 this year and my garden efforts have shrunk to four planters of salad vegetables and flowers, and a so-far 3 foot tall lemon cutting. I'll never be strong enough again to actually plant a tree in the ground but the trees I planted through my 40s and 50s are now between 20 and 40 years old. Tall, impressive kauris, some of which will build a house each when they are mature, and riverine eucalyptus that will develop nesting hollows in another hundred years. Gardening is Keeping the Earth.
Beautiful piece today Philip.