Le petit chêne
English version below the pictures
Dernièrement en marchant dans ma pelouse dans la cour,j’ai découvert un tout jeune chêne de 15 cm un peu perdu dans le lierre envahissant .
J’étais émerveillé.Un bébé chêne ans mon jardin!
D’où venait le gland Je ne connais pas de chênes autour . Peut-être est-ce un oiseau ou un écureuil qui l’a abandonné ?
J’ai donc décidé de planter en Novembre ce petit chêne dans mon potager. Oui!Probablement que je ressens encore une sorte d’attirance pour les chênes
comme les ancêtres français les Gaulois, population celte qui imaginait les chênes comme des arbres sacrés. !! 🙂
Recently while walking in my lawn in the backyard, I discovered a very young 12 cm oak tree a little lost in the invasive ivy.
I was amazed.A baby oak tree in my garden!
Where did the acorn come from? I don’t know of any oak trees around. Maybe it was a bird or a squirrel that abandoned him?
So I decided to plant this little oak in my vegetable garden next November. Yes, I probably still feel a kind of attraction for oaks
like the French ancestors, the Gauls, a Celtic population who imagined oaks as sacred trees. !! 🙂
Je me souviens étant en vacances en Normandie il y a 8 ans nous avons été dire bonjour à un grand chêne,le géant dans la forêt proche de notre hôtel
Dans cette région de Normandie (le Perche) les forêts sont nombreuses s . Et, autour de la ville( Bellême ) où nous séjournions se trouve une forêt réputée pour ces grands arbres comme ce chêne vieux de 350 ans . Je fais minuscule au pied de cet arbre haut de 42 m.
Quand je regardais .vers le haut je ressentais comme une sorte de vertige mais je n’ ai pas manqué non plus de remarquer le dessin de l’ écorce .
Nous sommes restés deux jours dans cette zone attachante.
I remember being on vacation in Normandy 8 years ago we went to say hello to a large oak tree, the giant in the forest near our hotel
In this region of Normandy (the Perche) forests are numerous. And, around the town (Bellême) where we were staying there is a forest renowned for such tall trees like this 350 year old oak tree. I look tiny at the foot of this 42 m high tree.
When I looked up I felt a sort of dizziness, but I did not fail to notice the typical pattern of the bark either.
We stayed two days in this endearing area.
En plus il me revenait à l’esprit une vieille chanson française “La voix des chênes” 1888. Voici le refrain
“Si vous rêvez d’amour
Dans les forêts prochaines
Écoutez au déclin du jour
La voix des chênes :
Elle vous parlera d’amour
Elle vous parlera d’amour
La douce voix
La douce voix des chênes.”
Besides it came to my mind an old French sing “the oaks’voice” 1888. Here is the chorus:
“If you dream of love
In the nearby forests
Listen to the waning of the day
The voice of the oaks:
That will talk to you about love
That will talk to you about love
The sweet voice
The sweet voice of oaks.”
Vous comprenez pourquoi mon enthousiasme face à ce bébé chêne que je planterai à l’ entrée de mon potager.
Je vous prie de m’excuser pour cet enthousiasme pour une si petite chose.( in apparence)
You understand why my enthusiasm in front of this baby oak tree that I will plant at the entrance to my vegetable garden.
I apologize for the enthusiasm for such a small thing. (In appearance)
How delightful to find one in your garden! And you can plant it wherever you wish … it will take decades to grow 42 m 🙂
This baby oak shows to us the way of hope , Kate ? ❤
indeed it does, and no doubt it came from bird droppings … they are so industrious 🙂
I guess it was big birds like crows ! 🙂
Your tiny oak is a big thing! Someday perhaps people will stand in front of your tiny oak and feel dizziness in looking up.
There’s a 170ish year old oak tree across the street from my house. I’m impressed with its age. I’m in awe of the much older one you stood in front of.
Even when it is very old the oak remains straight and strong! ❤
Life is so amazing…especially trees. They are beautiful, provide shade and material for lovely furniture…Although I almost hate to see any tree cut down for any reason. In the fall, the leaves of the deciduous trees. They also provide protection and a place to nest. Creation is a marvel.! And of all the trees in the garden of Eden, our first mother had to just taste it since it was forbidden. We humans like to break rules and we suffer for it.
Do you know La Fontaine’s fable: the oak and the reed, Françoise? 🙂
Je suis très heureuse de ta petite chêne! Moi j’avais essayé d’en faire pousser une, mais sans y réussir. En plus, la semaine passé on a du abattre le grand érable campestre qui était né trop près de ma fontaine et en grandissant était en train de la saper… J’ai beaucoup pleuré! Au printemps il y avait de petits oiseaux qu’y faisaient leur nid…
Tous mes souhaits à la petite chêne et à vous tous !
Oui Annalisa ,je comprends ta peine quand on a dû abattre l’ érable .
En ce qui concerne le petit chêne , il est venu tout seul . Je me demande si je dois le laisser là où le planter ailleurs ?
Merveilleux ❤
Nous ressentons aussi ces racines celtes qui sont les nôtres !
Amitiés, AM
Oui , Anne le chêne a toujours une valeur symbolique en France .
mais il paraît que les Chinois aiment cela aussi !
Trees are amazing, this beautiful Oak is stunning. If left alone by man trees can live centuries. I smile thinking of the tiny acorn that you will plant 🌱 and how it will grow so tall and stately. You truly love nature Michel, we thank you. ❤️
You too are in love with nature, Holly, especially the seaside and the flower gardens. True ?
Indeed, I love nature , the forests, the seas, the creatures that share our world. The rose gardens. The wild horses. I love them all. ❤️
I remember a poem where you would rest stretched out in a garden tasting colors and scents , Holly.
Wow. Imagine what was happening when that mature tree was 12cm tall! The U.S. was a British colony. Trees are fascinating.
You are right Diane. I have posted in the past about a sequoia brought to France by a friend of La Fayette, a French marquess who helped the insurgents to gain victory (1782)
We had a huge oak tree at the side of our house. It was leaning. When we built the house we made sure to put the house in the direction it wasn’t leaning. The last time I visited the tree was still there and still leaning.
I like oak trees too
Prudence is needed, indeed, Gail,.about a leaning tree !
bonsoir Michel,
la nature nous réservera toujours de jolies surprises et tu as bien raison d’accueillir ce petit chêne avec joie. Un jour , ton chêne deviendra énorme c’est le problème avec les arbres, on pense de suite “à fort comme un chêne” .
bises !
C’est bien pourquoi, Maidy, je réfléchis au meilleur endroit pour le replanter ou alors le laisser là où il est? Un jeune arbre a besoin de lumère et on doit prévoir son ombre portée alentour ! ❤
à cause de l’ombre, oui, Michel, tes enfants seront sûrement de bon conseil , afin que tu fasses le bon choix !
Bonne idée, Maidy.
That is some tall tree, Michel! “Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.” How exciting to find the beautiful little oak tree growing in your garden, and to know what it may become in 350 years! Amazing…something that will potentially outlive us and many generations to come. ❤ Thank you for this beautiful post, Michel!
Love ❤
Cheryl
This beautiful tree is indeed sobering about the passage of time, Cherryl!: ❤
I am excited about oaks too! An acorn fell into my flowers last autumn and it rooted into a seedling this spring. I haven’t had the heart to remove it yet.
I understand your feelings , Gaye .
I intend to keep the mine safe ! 🙂
Thank for your visit. I remember you from Xannga. ❤
A beautiful post Michel. Oak trees are very special.
This is what I think too, Nico.
🙂
Oh, how wonderful, Michel! It’s so great that a bird or squirrel decided to plant it for you! 🙂
Oak trees are amazing and encourage us to keep growing! One day your tiny oak will be a mighty oak…a place for all creatures to enjoy!
Your photos are beautiful! 🙂
(((HUGS))) 🙂
PS…”An Oak tree is a daily reminder that great things often have small beginnings.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
Yes , Carolyn tiny tree will become great!
Do you have oak tress or beech trees around your house . But perhaps in the mountains you have pine trees ? ❤
We have pine trees, fir trees, aspen trees, several kinds of oak trees (like White Oak and Gambel Oak) and other trees. 🙂
This looks like a forest around you, Carolyn. ! ❤
Decades ago, I came across an oak seedling in the forest floor litter of the Pfälzerwald, south of Kaiserslautern. I felt the same joy as you to discover this little oak, and it reminded me of the oak on the back of German small change back then, a symbol of the rebirth of a country that survived being lead astray by a terrible man and was still, then, in the process of rebuilding after a brutal war. By now, that tree would be 50 years old, a veteran of the forest floor…if it survived. I pray it did!
I understand your joy to find a seedling of oak in a forêt near Kaiserlautern, Doug, and also to see the oak also appears on small German coins, . Symbol of germain renascence .
It seems you keep good memories of your stay in Germany
In friendship
Michel
Yes, my time there and in your country, Greece, Austria, and Italy were very positive experiences! (I had a positive time during visits to Paris, for that matter, though people here think Parisians are rude…not my experience with them.)
It is true that some Parisians have a bad reputation! There is Paris and … the others! ! 🙂
Yes, it seems even French people feel Parisians are a bit snooty! I personally found the French to be very pleasant and friendly.
Yes Doug the friendship between Frenches and Americans started in the years 1780’s ! 🙂 …and before with the natives of Louisiana.
Yes, Lafayette is well known in US history lessons!
Yes this man desserves a lot, Doug!
Yes!
If you ask your grandkids to help you plant that oak, they will tell the story to their children decades from now…assuming climate change doesn’t do it in. I fear for our magnificent redwoods, here in California. They need the marine fog that comes in off the coast and that fog is diminishing more each year.
The sequoia for France is symbol of the fight for Independence of he US . French helped a lot and some people came back in France with young sequoisa ( redwood ) that we still can admire nowadays ; They are 270 yars old!
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Wonderful! I hope the transplantation is successful and the little tree thrives! I’m battling a wayward beech tree that was planted by a squirrel or chipmunk at the foundation of the house. We are trying to dig it up but the root must have gone all the way to the earth’s core!! I am hoping for some more rain to loosen the soil and make the digging easier!
This is worrisome, Val ! Hopeful for you those roots disappear by themselves . and better you succeed in the digging t extract them!
Hi Michel.
What a lovely finding! It will be big with some years. We planted one oak when we had our garden. In 19 years it was quite high. Thank you for this lovey post.
Have a great day. Amitiés, Matti
C’était une bonne idée de planter un chêne dans votre jardin . Maintenant ce chêne doit vous apporter beaucoup d’agrément .
Nous y avons vécu en 1993-2012. Il y a quelques années, nous sommes allés le voir. C’était beau alors. Maintenant, après avoir déménagé de là, nous avons vécu dans trois endroits (Mikkeli, Helsinki et maintenant Espoo). Deux premiers ne nous convenaient pas, mais le troisième semble être super. Le plus important pour nous est la maison calme, les commerces à proximité et les connexions. Nous aimons le silence !
As -tu un jardin à Espoo, Matti?
Non, nous vivons dans un immeuble à appartements. Matti
This is probably the wisdom.
Les arbres c est la vie …..bravo pour cette entrée poétique…la nature nous nourrit dans tous les sens du terme…merci à ce petit écureuil
Je vous souhaite une bonne journée. Ce matin nous étions dans le brouillard mais le soleil commence à pointer son nez ….
Bon courage Papa pour cet après-midi. Je vous embrasse bien fort carole
La nature est là qui t’attend et qui t’aime, disait le poète Alphonse de Lamartine ! Merci.
In my subdivision, every house was completed with a tree in the front yard, and those trees varied quite a lot. Our house had a green ash tree, which was unfortunately decimated just a few years ago by the ash borer beetle, and is no more. Our neighbor, however, had an oak tree, and that oak has grown mightily in just the 37 years we have lived here. This is a prolific tree in leaves (which all fall in our yard) and acorns (makes it hazardous to walk in our driveway this time of year as they roll underfoot). I cannot number the amount of baby trees that sprout enthusiastically from my flower beds! This time of year, the blue jays are attracted to the tree in great numbers and loudly squabble amongst themselves and the squirrels over the bounty. I am sure your little tree will flourish for you wherever you plant it!
Just make sure you plan for it to have a LOT of room!
I see you have gained a lot of experience with oaks and ash trees, Susan
I’m sorry for your ash tree killed by an insect. I have one in the garden. I remember my mother making “ash cider” with the leaves of this tree. A sort of beer with ash leaves that we drank while eating. .
Thanks ❤
Hope your tree grows mighty and strong.
I hope too for my children ! 🙂
I hope you got a good rest lately ❤
I have been taking more me time which is rest.
You are somewhat renascent to yourself . Great! ❤
I hit a point where myself needs to be a priority because nobody else was giving much of themselves to me to make up for all I give.
As always a just balance is to found , and you will find , ❤
Thank you.
Encouragement ❤
Barbara Lenhard says:
Word Press won’t allow me to comment on your beautiful Oak tree 💕💕
I recently read that to support the most diversity of life in your yard, plant an oak. I have four different oaks– a Laurel Oak, a Turkey Oak, a Live Oak, and an unidentified one. I planted one, the squirrels (I assume) did the other three. Like you, I love oaks.
I feel the squirrels are good gardeners very attentive at the diversity of vegetal species on the planet and especially in your yard, Cheri !
I am amazed by the collection of oaks you got.
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No need for apologies, that was wonderful! I love trees too and that surely is a huge one. I’m happy to report I will have several trees at my new home. I’m glad you found a little oak and will look forward to watching it grow.
Love, Christine ❤️
I am glad , Christine, to read you will have several trees in the yard of your new home . I like sitting in the garden and look at the trees around. This brings much rest to the soul. ❤
I hope the oak tree will live long and grow to be very tall. And when people wonder where it came from, they can always check your blog.
Exactly,Matt!The oak will be in my ineheritage ! 🙂
The oak tree in front of you is surely gigantic 😅Appreciating small things in everyday life makes one happy, Uncle Michel. So glad to read your post again❤️
What is tiny is cute , what is tall is impressing ,
Thanks Isabel for your visit. ❤
What a treasure you found in your garden, Michel! That oak you’re standing next to is magnificent!! So tall and grand. I love the way you find so many interesting things to say about nature. ❤
Yes Marion, Nature inspires me and speaks to me. ❤
What a charming discovery! These intrepid individuals that colonize a new space are endearing. I’m delighted that you plan to transplant the sapling into the garden. I have always meant to try my hand at forcing acorns but never did so . . .
Nature hates emptiness, Neil. When a space is free, it is quickly invaded and more and more by pioneer vegetation then other vegetal populations until the forest!
Here the ground cover must make the conditions favorable for the tree, even if merely by keeping too much else from growing in that place.
Yes, Neil, the green cover prepares the place of the trees!
ryc: Unfortunately I don’t have a yard. But there are a few places here where one can see interesting plantings. And as you say, nature abounds everywhere, where it gets a chance. One just has to remember to look 🙂
Now, the Koreans use starch from acorns to set a gelatin for a traditional appetizer or side dish : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotori-muk I have wanted to try it for some time now.
Thank you , Neil. You teach me!
Being excited about the small things make each day special. I salute you ❤
Small things will become grand, Nancy! ❤
Kathy Colvin says:
I love Oak trees. We have many here. And the squirrels hide the acorns all over the place and then forget to retrieve them so in the Spring, I have many baby Oaks growing in unusual places! Take care. Love, Kathy
Marion Manson says:
Amazing oak tree you’re standing next to, Michel! Lovely you have a baby oak in your garden. 🙂
Amazing trees Michel! Your great great grandchildren will have something of you to remember you by!!!
God bless you and Janine ❤🌿
I hope so, Gayle
BTW do you have a garden there where you live ? ❤
No…I live in an apartment building with 23 other tenants . 😟
It’s another way of life , Gayle. We stayed in an appartment just after our mariage during three years ❤
Rhonda Davis says:
Hi Michel! Love to see your posts. Oak trees are a favorite and here so plentiful that they drop acorns all over and we have baby oak trees everywhere! Worth saving!❤️
J’adore cette petite histoire, Michel, parce que j’adore ton enthousiasme pour précisément une si petite chose — elle agrandira petit à petit!
Merci Louisa . Petite chose deviendra grande , c’est l’image de la vie. ❤
I love this post Michel. Such sweet feelings about a single Oak. I have some like them in my garden just growing helter-skelter. Sometimes in find Maple amidst weeds and, I thank the birds and the squirrels who are responsible for this propagation. Of course we have a lot of Oaks and Maples in our area.
Oaks and Maples are wonderful trees , very strong.
They are imposing
Oak especially is regal ❤
You have made me excited about your discovery. Thank you for sharing that wonderful song. I will never look at an oak tree the same again 💗 🌳 !
Thanks for your comment, Cassi. This enchants me
Yes the oaks sing love according to the song. ❤
What a marvellous find! Someday it will grow up to be a majestic oak tree!
Yes , Suzy but we have to be patient ! We are , don’t we ? 🙂
I love oak trees, to, and have a “rescue” oak planted up front that is now about 15 feet tall. I love the words to that oak song, too. You never have to apologize for enthusiasm, Michel. Enthusiasm for living things is always a blessing. ❤️
Thank you, Lavinia, for your kindness
May I suggest that you take a photo of your beautiful oak tree. I would like to see it. ❤
I will do that!
Stacie Kelsey said:
Beautiful post!!!!
What a wonderful surprise to find……
With love to you and your family
❤ Yvonne and Family
I am glad to read you Yvonne . A great pleasure for me .
Michel ❤
Bonjour ou bonsoir MICHEL la douceur de vivre
LE PETIT CHENE A POUSSE
C’est un café avec une amie, un ami un baiser volé, un message inattendu
C’est le regard amical d’un passant.
C’est répondre au téléphone et entendre avec surprise la voix de ceux que nous aimons
C’est une bouffée d’air frais après une journée enfermée dans une pièce.
C’est un sourire
C’est une promenade au soleil après des semaines de pluie
C’est le sourire d’un enfant.
C’est notre chanson préférée à la radio
C’est la pleine lune.
C’est un câlin affectueux
Belle semaine à vous tous profitez bien je vous offre un petit déjeuner
Le petit chême t’ a inspiré un des tes meilleurs poèmes Bernard .
Et la photo est si appétissante ! Merci
Michel
Come to my yard, oak sprouts all over along with the dreaded hackberry. Love your photos. Bark on trees always fascinates me.
Soon, Bonnie , we wil have a forest of oaks around your house ! 🙂
Carol McKay Harper said:
Our property is full of Oaks. The acorns are starting to fall. We don’t mind that except they are a mess on the driveway.
That is totally awesome to find an Oak growing in your garden. I love Oaks and Pines (as this is native to our state). We have a lot of Oaks in the area too. Love finding acorns as does Little Cutie. ❤ E
In the past I think people made flour with the inside of acorns, Elizabeth. ❤
Rachel S Geselman said:
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What beautiful photographs, Michel. I love seeing a future mighty oak as a sapling in your yard. Many oak trees have been cut down in my area because of a tree disease. 😥
Love to you and Janine. ❤️
Yes , Linda, it is impressing to consider this tiny baby tree will become a powerful oak ( I hope ! 🙂
There’s something so full of promise in a tiny oak tree, Michel. And yes, you do look tiny yourself compared to that massive tree! Lovely photos, by the way. And I, too, say Hello to trees, especially the old ones, which have survived way beyond a human lifetime.
Little oak will become high and powerful if Man respects it. Thanks Cynthia. ❤
Just stopping by to say, Hey! How are you doing?
And to leave some ❤ and (((HUGS))) for you and Janine! 🙂
Thanks to ask,Carolyn . I am a bit tired by the dialysis . But all in all I am rather well. ❤
Continued prayers for you. ❤ and (((HUGS))) 🙂
How very lovely, Michel! The tree is majestic!
Hope you and the family are doing well these days! Cheers!
Yes Larry Oak trees are like a France symbol . And the wood is very appreciated . The new roof of ND de Paris is built with oak frames .
You do look very tiny near the oak tree. I am not surprised that you got dizzy after looking up at the tree. Take care
Yes this oak tree was right and very high, Angy.
bonne fête Michel ! bises !
C ‘est très gentil ,Maidy de me souhaiter une bonne fête de St Michel,Archange. Merci ❤