The Little Oak Tree

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The Oak Tree

There’s an Oak Tree in my garden,

But it isn’t very tall,

It’s only a hand span high,

So, it’s barely a tree at all.

I don’t know where it came from,

There are no Oaks for miles around,

I suspect a bird flew over,

And dropped it on the ground.

There’s a Bluebell in my garden,

It wasn’t there when I bought my home,

It appears out front each Spring,

So, I think it’s been self-sown.

There’s a Holly tree in my garden,

I know not from whence it came,

It barely reaches to my knee,

But it’s a tree, all the same.

There’s a Baytree in my garden,

It sprouted near an old seat,

But the leaves are the wrong type for cooking,

So I can’t use them in things to eat.

There’s a small Fern in my garden,

I found it out the back,

I’ve put it in a planter,

That’s shaped like a flour sack.

This gardening lark is easy,

With all the things I’ve found,

I don’t need spade or trowel,

To put plants in the ground.

I walk around the garden,

In shade or in full sun,

To find new things a-growing,

Oh look, there’s another one.

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I like that.:slight_smile: It was nice and relaxing just reading it.
Blackbirds have planted some of our garden.

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Thats lovely :slight_smile:

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That is lovely Fruitcake :smiley:

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I’ll lay good odds that most oaks sprout from acorns left by squirrels and buried as part of their winter stash.
This is a perfect piece @Fruitcake :+1:

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I like that poem Fruitcake.

I have a large Oak tree growing in the bank & hedge in my garden & I often find seedling Oaks, but they get strimmed when the grass is done, no good where they land & sprout anyway.

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Thanks all. I don’t know what happened to the formatting because I wrote it as eight, four line stanzas of rhyming couplets. Oh well, it still scanned oaky.

Most of my long hedge started out as self planted seedlings. It’s 2m high and 20m long now.

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