Don’t you wish you could just stick a seed in the ground, any seed, and it would sprout and grow?  I knew a woman like that…my grandmother.  She grew roses and tomatoes in whiskey barrels and grew fruit trees from the grocery store produce seeds by sticking the seeds in houseplant pots WITH the houseplants.  I had a client once who called this method of dream planting “stick planting”.  She would buy things and just stick them in the ground and hoped they grew. My grandmother stuck seeds in her pots and knew they would grow and grow they did.

Well I participated in a little stick planting of my own this past summer at the height of cherry season, you know…when they were on sale in the supermarkets.  I tucked a few seeds into my office plant and voila…here in January I noticed some funny looking weeds growing in my container…surely they are cherry trees in the making. 

Of course, they need to be repotted.  So this beautiful weather prompted a repotting session for the cherry trees.  I carefully removed them from the pots with my handy dandy bonsai tools (a great buy from ebay!)

Fascinating to see the seedlings still sporting their cotyledon, which feeds the seedlings until they get their first root (the radical) and stem (the hypocotyl) going.  

Once they cherry trees were at home in their new pot (complete with a good dose of worm castings), I pruned the other plants and placed them back in their pots, who knows what fun babies they might nurse this next growing season!