sitka spruce

Ron Wanttaja wrote...
There once was a British admiral who, legend has it, always carried a
pocketful of acorns with him to plant the trees for the ships the next
generation would be sailing....

"Dude" wrote ...
Will that Sitka grow in SE Texas, [?]


A friend of mine (also in SE Texas] loves to grow things. She & her
husband once took a trip to Colorado where she was struck by the
beauty of of the spruce trees up there. Nothing like 'em back home.
She decided then & there that she had to have some planted around the
ranchette. Started pestering her husband about it. After a couple
days of nagging, they'd stopped at a scenic overlook & she brought the
subject up for the 37th time. He looked down on the ground beneath
one of the subject trees & informed her that there was a large
quantity of seeds just laying there for the taking. She starts
picking them up & stuffing them in her pockets. He was tickled pink,
smiling from ear to ear and made sure that she understood the need to
keep the seeds warm. Something about the tree having evolved at
higher elevations where the sun is more intense. So she kept them in
her pockets. Kind of a nuisance, having to dig through them every
time she wanted her chapstick or something, but she really liked those
spruce trees & figured they were just what Texas needed. She was
happy, he was happy.

Couple days later, heading home & passing through Waco he could no
longer contain himself. Had to ask. "Honey, do you know the
difference between spruce seeds and rabbit turds?"

Daniel