May 23: Elm seedlings
May. 23rd, 2010 02:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neverspentBefore I left my apartment two weeks ago, drifts of elm seeds had begun to follow the pine catkins in littering my balcony. These elm seeds are tiny, translucent brown papery discs with a flat seed right in the middle. They're so small and thin, you might not even notice them... until later.
From Bilder ur Nordens Flora by C.A.M. Lindman
(Projekt Runeberg/Wikimedia Commons)
My Forestry Commission tree book says the fruit of the elm tree "ripens in the spring, falls early, and germinates at once if the soil is moist." The soil was clearly good and moist during my absence, because I returned to find hundreds of elm sprouts in my flower pots. Most still have only their two little round cotyledons (seed leaves), but a few have already grown their first true leaf with its elm serrations.
It's going to be a job of weeding in the next few days! Maybe I'll save a few sprouts and see if I can add elms to my collection of baby trees.
From Bilder ur Nordens Flora by C.A.M. Lindman
(Projekt Runeberg/Wikimedia Commons)
My Forestry Commission tree book says the fruit of the elm tree "ripens in the spring, falls early, and germinates at once if the soil is moist." The soil was clearly good and moist during my absence, because I returned to find hundreds of elm sprouts in my flower pots. Most still have only their two little round cotyledons (seed leaves), but a few have already grown their first true leaf with its elm serrations.
It's going to be a job of weeding in the next few days! Maybe I'll save a few sprouts and see if I can add elms to my collection of baby trees.