Friday, September 13, 2019

Nature Friday - A Very Special Tree

A long time ago, my great-grandmother took an acorn from the cottage (which is now my parents home) and grew a seedling in her place in Toronto. She planted that seedling at the cottage and it grew into a mighty oak.

Sometime in the 1990s, the might oak was lost in a terrible storm. Sandy soil is not the best for strong roots. Fortunately, it fell in such a way that only a picnic table was damaged.  The wood from this great tree was used to make tables, so the oak has lived on in one way. 

While the original oak is gone, others have grown from it. When we moved to our house in the country, my parents brought me a sapling - maybe the great-grandtree of the original oak.

It hasn't looked like it was growing until this year, when it doubled in size. We hope our sapling is on the way to becoming a mighty oak. 


Thank you to our dear friends Rosy and the Boyz for hosting Nature Friday and letting us share the story of a little oak that means a lot to us. 



16 comments:

  1. guess what? we have an oakling too in our garden ... it is super small but once it will be a mighty oak... next year or so...maybe ;O)

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  2. Hari OM
    OMD that is the BEST nature Friday story!!! Live long dear tree... YAM xx

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  3. Oh that is a very special story, and we do hope the little sapling thrives in its new location.

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  4. What a wonderful story! Grow little oak - grow big and strong!

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  5. What a great story about your tree. We hope some day it will be huge and feed lots of critters with its acorns.

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  6. Oh K10 what a beautiful story....
    Hugs to you, Man, Hailey and Phod
    HiC

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  7. this is a wonderful story, I hope it grows tall and strong and lives on and on. sorry you lost that mighty oak, and happy you have the children and grandchildren saplings

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  8. Momma says at her old house, there was a fig tree in the back grown from a cutting of a cutting of a cutting of a tree at the old owners' great-grandparents' house! They took another cutting of it when they moved. I hope it grew strong!

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  9. We have a couple oaks popping up where the squirrels forgot they buried their acorns. Maybe one of them will grow bigger and then we can put it where our big silver maple was cut down. Good luck with your oak trees!

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  10. What a wonderful memory of a beautiful tree. May it span generations!

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  11. That's a wonderful tradition. Hope it grows strong and tall.

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  12. That would be the best. A new tree from the old tree. Time marches on.....

    Love and licks,
    Cupcake

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  13. Paws crossed for the flourishing baby growing into a mighty oak.

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  14. I love this! Trees are treasures anyway, and having a connection to to a beautiful oak, makes it even more special and unique. I hope it grows big and strong in the years ahead!

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  15. How wonderful! we do hope it grows to be a big and strong tree!!
    hugs
    Mabel & Hilda

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  16. Oh, that is a FABulous story! I do thinks that will be the Sapling that Could!
    Kisses,
    Ruby ♥

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