oh... have I had this unfortunate inner dialog! Not with the future of a Redwood, but many baby pines that fall into the gutter on our back deck and rush to their "spot" and grow in what I now term the pine nursery at the end of the gutter... I have rehomed many over the time we have lived here! Give them 2 yrs or so, and the root is big enough to transplant further out on our little bit of land.
Now... the apple tree that was way too close to our garage, and I loved dearly, went the way of the bunny winter brigade ~ I had no need to worry after all... though I miss her quite a bit.
So good in your efforts to rehome the many pine babies!
Sadly our cherry tree that bore massive amounts of tart bright red fruit was decimated by a marauding hungry bear. The stump is now sending up multiple shoots. It will be interesting to watch what happens next. Nature can be so resilient- a good lesson. Which reminds me of this poem:
Optimism by Jane Hirshfield
More and more I have come to admire resilience.
Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam
returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous
tenacity of a tree: finding the light newly blocked on one side,
it turns in another. A blind intelligence, true.
But out of such persistence arose turtles, rivers,
mitochondria, figs—all this resinous, unretractable earth.
Our bunny-apple tree still sends shoots all summer to give the winter bunnies fresh young bark (that they seem to prefer!) during the long winter months. So I prune the shoots to get a handful of nice ones going before the snowfall and the eventual dinner they will provide! LOL
It is a good lesson in mutual living for al of us, hugs kiddo!
What fascinates me about Ms Hirshfield, is how much knowledge, wisdom and breadth of subject she can incorporate into ten seemingly innocuous lines.
Absolutely, and such brevity brings one into the poem even more as the reader fills in the space between and around the written lines.
oh... have I had this unfortunate inner dialog! Not with the future of a Redwood, but many baby pines that fall into the gutter on our back deck and rush to their "spot" and grow in what I now term the pine nursery at the end of the gutter... I have rehomed many over the time we have lived here! Give them 2 yrs or so, and the root is big enough to transplant further out on our little bit of land.
Now... the apple tree that was way too close to our garage, and I loved dearly, went the way of the bunny winter brigade ~ I had no need to worry after all... though I miss her quite a bit.
So good in your efforts to rehome the many pine babies!
Sadly our cherry tree that bore massive amounts of tart bright red fruit was decimated by a marauding hungry bear. The stump is now sending up multiple shoots. It will be interesting to watch what happens next. Nature can be so resilient- a good lesson. Which reminds me of this poem:
Optimism by Jane Hirshfield
More and more I have come to admire resilience.
Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam
returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous
tenacity of a tree: finding the light newly blocked on one side,
it turns in another. A blind intelligence, true.
But out of such persistence arose turtles, rivers,
mitochondria, figs—all this resinous, unretractable earth.
Lovely!
Our bunny-apple tree still sends shoots all summer to give the winter bunnies fresh young bark (that they seem to prefer!) during the long winter months. So I prune the shoots to get a handful of nice ones going before the snowfall and the eventual dinner they will provide! LOL
It is a good lesson in mutual living for al of us, hugs kiddo!
I love this!