Forest Heart Local Native Plant Nursery

with Tree Surgeon Tony Wootton, our local arborist and author, meeting the Hinterland's tree needs since 1996

Iwanted to share with you the profoundly joyful feeling I feel when I sit at the feet of some of the trees that I planted in the late 1990s. One of them in particular, a blue Quandong, Eleaocarpus angustifolius, is gigantic.

It is a marvel to think that a quandong seed could produce such a huge organism, and to consider that a younger version of myself, planted it all those years ago. This is a feeling that you cannot buy. You can only get it by planting a tree and then living in that place for several decades.

For the sake of this feeling alone, I would encourage anyone reading this article to do exactly that. Another astounding thing to realise is that these trees are barely out of kindergarten. I can’t wait to see what they will look like in another 20 years, if I’m lucky enough to live that long. Even if I am not, future generations will be able to gaze in wonder at these behemoths. That’s one of the inspiring things about trees, they can potentially live a lot longer than us, spanning generations, a legacy if you will.

It’s also an exciting time of year now in the garden as we throw off the oppressive shackles of summer heat and cut back the excessive summer growth, with the cooler weather making it a pleasant time to be out amongst our herbaceous companions.

You can start to think about what and where to prune to let in the warming sunlight of winter, which is just around the corner.

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Landline: 54 944 917

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