Acorns

Hundreds and hundreds of acorns have fallen into our garden this year. Why do the squirrels insist on burying acorns in our lawn rather than in the borders? He was at it again this morning, Bugger!

Are the magpies and crows watching them being buried as they seem to soon dig them up again

Also beware your local council - as soon as a sapling has a girth of 5 cm or more they will slap a tree preservation order (TPO) on it.

Fortunately, my local busybodies sent such a notice to me, in error, relating to a tree which was in a neighbours garden. I now assiduously uproot any oak seedlings in case they get a TPO on them.

It is my choice what grows in my garden, not that of the local council !

I don't think the council will put a preservation order on what I grow in my greenhouse 🤣

According to the web, an oak is around 50 before it produces its own acorns  ... https://www.tigtagworld.co.uk/film/life-cycle-of-an-oak-tree-PRM00013/#:~:text=Most%20oak%20trees%20won't,matures%20into%20a%20majestic%20adult.

My mistake ED, I didn’t think of checking on line I remembered the oak I planted in my garden taking 20 years before it produced acorns. I’m afraid in my world real life trumps t’internet

Fish, a little snippet for you-the common oak is also known as the English oak, & the Pedunculate oak. The Sessile oak is also known as the Cornish oak & the Irish oak. The Sessile oak has been adopted as the national Tree of Wales👍🏻

This can’t be true. I know our tree is only about 15 years old and has had acorns for at least the last four years. Admittedly there have been many more this year than previously and last year there was almost none. I’m afraid the internet is wrong again. I don’t think our tree is anything special.

I once heard a Steve Wright 'factoid' suggest it was 50 yrs & the interweb said the same ..... 🤷‍♂️ but who knows? 

The RHS says 40 years or more.