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What growing a cedar taught me about resilience and patience
Have you ever tried to grow a tree from its fruits or cones and watched the vulnerable seedling becoming a little tree after a long period of slow growth? I love to take seeds and cones from my favorite plants and try to cultivate them at home. These are often seeds from plants which grow in special places that are dear to my heart.Once I collected a cone from a cedar at the shoreline of the wild Atlantic Ocean.Its trunk was so big, knotty branches which have seen and endured many storms. I was so happy when I saw the first little green needles in my pot on the windowsill.When…