Do you have a favorite tree? We do! (but don't tell them ;)
Greetings from our mountain forest garden! @ecoinstante's favorite tree, one which she planted and cared for and monitored for many years, including featuring this very tree in her [Chronicle of a Tree article](/nature/@ecoinstante/chronicle-of-a-tree-cronica-de-un-arbol), this is Andean Walnut.
We love this tree, and many others, and the happiness it brings us to see them grow is very special to us.
This is not the tallest of the walnuts we have planted, in fact it recieves a lot of wind from the townward face of our mountain, amd as such is taking its time to fill out and develop deep roots.
Are you digging deep roots or just reaching for the sky?
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I'm glad to see y'all, I had been wondering where you were, but hoping you were just busy catching up on the homestead. :) I have trees in pots, and the oldest is Ellie the elm tree. :) There are lots of beautiful trees in my neighborhood, but they're generally in other people's yards so I don't really get to hang out with them.
Doing lots of catching up in this early part of the year! Will you look for solid ground for Ellie as she gets older? I have never tried bonzai but one day I would like to.
Glad to hear that your plants are making it through the winter under your TLC tutelage!
Oh, none of the trees in pots are bonsai. They're just seeds I started in pots (and Ellie was a volunteer). :) I will eventually seek solid ground for them but not for a long time yet, I think.
Volunteers are a special type of special! One of the greatest advancements we have made here has been to begin to identify by sight so many types of native trees and woody shrubs that naturally 'volunteer' to help us reforest!
Plants are one of Earth's super powers!
Here the most common volunteers are Trees of Heaven, which are invasive, and the ladytrees smell like cat pee. 😂 They grow super fast, too. I'm constantly picking their seeds out of the balcony pots, because one (thankfully male) is right outside the balcony. Apparently their roots make the ground inhospitable to other plants, so when one volunteered in a pot, I let it grow all summer and in the winter I pulled it to make an ogham stick with for my local ogham project, and tipped the soil out to the ground below where the parent tree lives, so I didn't try growing anything in it again later.
The most common native trees are blue spruce and aspen. :) How about down there?
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Great to see your favorite tree and of course when you plant it yourself, it is always special as you watch over it every year. Congrats.
Thank you Rosa! I agree, watching it grow many times larger than ourselves is very special :)