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Last year i took some hardwood cuttings of my friends elderberry bush and put them in a quiet part of the garden and totally forgot about them and this morning found 5 mini elderberry trees growing happily away

Well done - though I think you could have just chucked a few berries on the ground and they'd have come up too. The ruddy things are everywhere here and I keep having to weed them out (thanks birds!) - but they are always coming up under trees and through all my conifers, though a number appear in the veg patch too. Just pulled up several from under a blackcurrant yesterday! I'm having the same problem with walnut trees (thanks pesky squirrel!) appearing in all my flower beds. I wouldn't mind so much if the bloomin' squirrel had bothered to EAT the walnuts.... but to steal them then forget about them, honestly

many years ago i was felling a dangerous tree near a house, and in the crutch of the tree was growing a few walnut trees that a squirrel had forgotten about and had germinated, so i took them out and planted them, i thought they had good memories, mind you i have never had a conversation with one although i have been attacked by one defending her nest.

old tree man wrote:, so i took them out and planted them, i thought they had good memories, mind you i have never had a conversation with one

Ha ha I thought you were talking about the walnuts until I read the very last bit - no I haven't had a conversation with a walnut fruit or tree either but I've yelled some rude things at the squirrel!

Whats that old song "i talk to the trees" no wonder they wont let me out of the institute