Three-plant-day was what we had at school. Primary school. I have no idea who arranged those trees but all pupils of each school went out on the same day to plant a tree. I plant several trees in my life and still try to add a bit to mother nature. I never thought I would buy some trees again not even after my walnut died and fell. Why not? Because I noticed the tree plants themselves and that's why I decided to let a few grow where they plant themselves. Who knows one day I have a part forest in my backyard. 
What I do lack is fruit trees or some with nuts. I always dreamed to have a garden where I can walk through and eat. Nearly each tree or plant or bush I planted died. 
Today I bumped into hazelnut trees (they can get 5 meters high where to plant a tree like that if you want to avoid others eat your hazelnuts?) for sale and blackberrie bushes (well I hope it will be once). Only 3 euros which isn't much. I bought them and had my tree-plant-day today. 

I read these days Autumn is a better period for planting (the soil is still warm and the rain takes care of the watering) than Spring (true we had a huge problem with water same during the summer). I really hope winter will not start too early since it's easier to grow grass than trees with the winter coming up. 

I wonder if the trees once planted by me and the rest of the school are still alive. It would be awesome but it's possible they died or are cut down long ago to build more houses or roads. Did you know a cut down tree sets free all the toxic it once filtered out of the air? Planting just one tree to compensate that is by far not enough. It depends on the age of the tree how many new ones you need to plant. Most likely even more than ten for each year it lived.

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