Maybe it's because it is Spring, the season of renewal, but it seems that I have a bit of a theme going here in the blog about new life surprising me. While, I had some faith that our brutally trimmed willow trees that had topped in February would re-sprout from the top, I wasn’t 100% sure, but now they have begun sprouting like mad.
I had the very wrinkled, several-year-old peas that I had planted in desperation, because I couldn’t find the saved planting peas from last year. Those old peas came up! Then there was the surprising young plum tree I discovered that had sprouted from the roots of a long dead plum tree. Life seems determined to persist.
Yesterday, when I went out to split some of the bucked-up pieces of willow from those topped trees, I was surprised to find that even those sawed-up chunks of wood were throwing out sprouts. That is something I had seen before with Cottonwood chunks.
I guess it is these developed survival skills, that keeps lifeforms continuing through the millions of years of evolution.
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