Life tries its best
Jul. 30th, 2007 04:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jan_andreaeven when the circumstances kind of suck.
These baby locust trees are growing in about 1.5" of very sandy "soil" that's collected at the base of our driveway (my car is out of the shot immediately to the left). They probably don't have long to live where they are, but you've got to give them credit for trying!
I like this one... looks like a teeny tiny forest.
I've briefly considered moving them to where they'd do better, but those locust trees are, frankly, awful for people. They grow huge sharp spikes all over, they dump a truckload of pollen all over in the spring, tiny flowers (that get *everywhere*) in the summer, seed pods every other fall, and every fall, tiny little leaves that are impossible to rake. I guess they're all right in the winter, besides the spikes, but damn, they are unfriendly beasties. Still, I admire the fortitude of their young.
These baby locust trees are growing in about 1.5" of very sandy "soil" that's collected at the base of our driveway (my car is out of the shot immediately to the left). They probably don't have long to live where they are, but you've got to give them credit for trying!
I like this one... looks like a teeny tiny forest.
I've briefly considered moving them to where they'd do better, but those locust trees are, frankly, awful for people. They grow huge sharp spikes all over, they dump a truckload of pollen all over in the spring, tiny flowers (that get *everywhere*) in the summer, seed pods every other fall, and every fall, tiny little leaves that are impossible to rake. I guess they're all right in the winter, besides the spikes, but damn, they are unfriendly beasties. Still, I admire the fortitude of their young.
