Takes me away to where am going

I’m a bit proud of these wee trees

They are a good reminder of that crazy holiday in The Norfolk broads.

When we disembarked. When we had managed to stop the boat. We found many many acorns walking along the country roads

We took them home and I read that if you placed them in a basin of water and they floated they were spoilt.

All of them floated.

I took them and threw them into a flower pot sitting at the side of the house.

That was September 2020. A holiday with masks and bookings

In Spring 22 i clearing out pots and planting new bits and I was sifting soil from pots … and there…. In the soil were four little sprouts I shoogled the soil off and there at the bottom of each of the little shoots was an acorn!

Four of my ‘dead’ acorns were living’.

We potted them up and waited and watched.

Last month I was clearing what I thought were empty pots … and Si came out and said where are the other two oak babies.

Oh bloody hell I had done it again ..

Found them in the soil I had mixed into the garden recovered them and planted them up again.

They were just two little sticks with no evidence of life

And today….


Leafies.

I’ve saved them again