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Old 02-10-2006, 02:45 PM
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Re: From little acorns.......

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Originally Posted by ogwen
Probably a stupid question . But is it leagle to pick up an acorn from the wild and plant it in your garden?

If it isnt do you need quite a big garden for space for it to grow? Or would it be best just to leave it?

Im asking because I'd like to plant one of our british trees in our garden and oak is one of my favourites.

Thanks anyway.
I don't think it's a problem, my sister has grown a number of horse cheastnuts this way, but yes they do need space -well eventually - the one in our garden has taken 25 years to get to a really good size, if you don't have much space maybe try silver birch or mountain ash?
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