Sow a Seed a Day for a year - Challenge :)

[veggiechicken]

A pot of Meteor peas - its Fruits week, don't ya know .

[veggiechicken]

A BIG pinch of Rocket in the GH.
It should have been a flower seed as its Friday but Rocket jumped into my hand first.

[mothhawk]

National Tree Week starts today VC.

I am expecting you be sowing a different tree seed every day for the next 7 days.

[veggiechicken]

Challenge accepted, MH.

Of course, you'll be doing it too

[veggiechicken]

Today's tree seeds are Areca triandra - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areca_triandra
The Wild Areca palm.
I'm starting with this one as the seeds need to be soaked for 24-48 hours and MH didn't give me much time to find some tree seeds.
Bit a failure really, as I haven't "sown " them but they are soaking in readiness for sowing.

[mothhawk]

I've sown an acorn I picked up yesterday

[veggiechicken]

Today's seed in to soak is Malus toringoides - Cut-leaf crab apple.
https://pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?Lat...us+Toringoides

[mothhawk]

Didn't have any tree seeds yesterday, so I sowed 4 cotoneaster berries. Hope that counts

Today sowed a red leafed acer - picked up at Bosworth Battlefield because the leaves turned such a brilliant red in autumn.
No idea what type of acer though.

[veggiechicken]

It all counts, MH.

Yesterday, I sowed my Weekly batch of 5 seeds and put some Halesia Carolina seeds into soak. The seeds are huge!!

https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/293473...-Group/Details

Just hoping all these trees don't grow as I'll have no room to grow them all. May need to try Bonsai.

[Small pumpkin]

I'd like an ongoing progress report on that tree VC. It looks very pretty. Don't think it would do well up here ( thinking of my potential peat bog ). Very interested in how quick it grows.

[veggiechicken]

Today's tree seeds in to soak are Bauhinia monandra - Pink orchid tree. Sounds beautiful The advice is "Ideally keep in a cool GH" - and it grows to 6m.
Bauhinia monandra - Useful Tropical Plants

[mothhawk]

I sowed a much more prosaic (and free!) three horse chestnuts yesterday, and today an arbutus unedo or strawberry tree. I saw the berry when I was out for a walk this morning. It was hanging over the wall of the quarry offices yard - it accidentally fell into my pocket

I looked online on how to sow it and there was a lot of guff about stratification and soaking and stuff. I cut the berry in half, shoved it in a pot and put it out in the rain. Job done.

[veggiechicken]

As a gesture of solidarity, I am going to sow Arbutus unedo too - but mine are tiny seeds from a packet rather than a big berry from a tree.
They're going in to soak now.
The first 3 days of tree seeds have been potted now.

[SarrissUK]

I'd never heard of this Arbutus unedo before. Are the fruits nice to eat?

[veggiechicken]

If you can wait about 10 years, I may be able to tell you.

Today's seed is Sambucus Sachalinensis (Red berried Elder).
https://www.plant-world-seeds.com/st...seed_item/1187

Perhaps more of a shrub than a tree, again, ask me in 10 years time.