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Fragments of time spent in my garden tending to plants and connecting with nature.

“Trees fall with spectacular crashes. But planting is silent and growth is invisible.”

“… And their reward for opening their door to strangers was to live on after death as trees—an oak and a linden—huge and gracious and intertwined. What we care for, we will grow to resemble. And what we resemble will hold us, when we are us no longer …”

↟ Most tree roots stay in the top 18 inches of soil, but they can also grow above ground (mangroves, banyan figs) or dive a few hundred feet deep.

↟ Coconut palm trees produce roots that grow just below the surface in a fibrous mass, reaching out distances that are as far as the tree is tall. They have evolved to thrive in saline water near oceans and support a slender trunk from 80 to 100 feet high that must withstand the rigors of tropical storms and hurricanes.