Suzanne's Mom's Blog

In 2013 I was given three cork oak (Quercus suber) acorns to try growing.

The first cork oak seedling after one year’s growth

At the time, I was in the middle of bulb planting and I popped the three acorns into individual 9cm pots without much thought. That was at the start of December.

I was amazed when about a month later the compost in the pots started to heave, indicating that things were stirring underneath. I was more amazed when I went out one morning and found a hole where one of the acorns had disappeared completely from the pot. I don’t know who stole it – possibly a magpie. My lesson learnt, I covered the two remaining pots with pea netting to stop further thefts.

I then started reading about how to grow cork oaks from acorns: obviously, I should have done the reading first:) I learnt that…