There’s a lot of mistletoe in that tree, watch out at Christmas:-). I have planted trees everywhere I have lived and love to go back and see that they are still young, for a tree and hopefully remember the little hairless monkey that planted them and tended their early years.
Sadly, mistletoe is not good for a tree. It is a parasite and sends roots under the bark for it’s nutrients. Trees can live with it for years but if they have a stress they don’t have all of their energy to fight it. Birds spread the waxy seeds. We have a hickory tree out back that has a lot of mistletoe and seems fine.
What a wonderful quote to accompany your photo. Trees easily outlive us, so we lose track of how they got planted, or if people were involved.
Thank you.
Many of them were here long before us. And will be here when we were all gone.
Somehow this is a nice idea I think.
There’s a lot of mistletoe in that tree, watch out at Christmas:-). I have planted trees everywhere I have lived and love to go back and see that they are still young, for a tree and hopefully remember the little hairless monkey that planted them and tended their early years.
I guess there are lots of them because we have no mistletoe tradition here ;-)
Little hairless monkey … nice image.
Sadly, mistletoe is not good for a tree. It is a parasite and sends roots under the bark for it’s nutrients. Trees can live with it for years but if they have a stress they don’t have all of their energy to fight it. Birds spread the waxy seeds. We have a hickory tree out back that has a lot of mistletoe and seems fine.