Oak trees

You can have some of my seedlings, haha, they pop up on my allotment regularly.

Great project, Linda. Do you get involved often?

Great project. I understand that Oaks will be under stress if England warms too much, they need the seasons. Scotland may be a hope for them and these ones may be standing 400 years from now, what a thought, you are nurturing something that will live that long! How long do they have to be protected before they are considered able to fend for themselves?

Great job Linda!

What a good idea!

Are you doing it solo or for a tree planting group? Its a very worthwhile job ayway - wishing you every success with it.

It is a group. My friend has 100 acorns planted in pots. She asked me to join the scheme. It seems Oak trees have a tap root that grows six feet in a year. Lifting them in the wild kills the tree if you snap the tap root. By growing them in pots you can contain the roots.
I am baby sitting the trees until they can find them a home next year.

The Woodland Trust might be interested in your project or have a suggestion where they would be welcome. Its so good to hear about native trees being grown in the UK - if we had done that all along we would have avoided all the infections our poor trees have suffered in recent years. Its hard to understand why there was any need to import ash trees for example. I'm surely not the only one to pull out many seedlings every year.

It is the Lostwoods project here in Scotland. I check my charges every day.😊

You are doing a great job there,Linda, looking after all those baby Oak trees! I hope they survive to be centenarians one day! :)

So do I, Balcony. I just hope they survive the winter.

While they don't get waterlogged they should have no problem surviving.

That shouldn’t be a problem, Balcony.