FREE baby trees from Velvet Toilet Rolls site

[Glutton4...]

I had the same email this morning, too!

[quark1]

Ditto the email!

[Magiccat1978]

I got the email too !

[matthew2riches]

Got that email as well! Tree soon

[matthew2riches]

Mine arrived!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jackie j]

Got the email await the tree

[piskieinboots]

Didn't get email - got tree ...well, when I say I got the tree....

....I got a nice firm cardboard tube with a lovely hessian bag in it, within the hessian bag was lovely damp compost and a leaveless twig and within the cardboard tube were a few dried and (now clearly) dead leaves.

I am nothing if not optimistic

[Scarlet]

Didn't get email - got tree ...well, when I say I got the tree....

....I got a nice firm cardboard tube with a lovely hessian bag in it, within the hessian bag was lovely damp compost and a leaveless twig and within the cardboard tube were a few dried and (now clearly) dead leaves.

I am nothing if not optimistic

Mine was the same. A little twig with some very dried leaves hanging on for dear life!

[Cosmo and Dibs]

Same here- dead as a dodo!

[Glutton4...]

I sense a pattern forming.

Nothing on the tube to state that it contained a live plant. No moisture in the compost, so gawd alone knows how long the poor little thing had been parcelled up.

I've put it in water, and will wait and see...

[piskieinboots]

IT LIVES - IT LIVES I tell you - yaaaay - I can see buds all the way down the poor sad looking (don't listen baby tree!) stem.

[matthew2riches]

My silver birch had 3 leaves on. There was about 8 in the bottom of the tube. The hessian sack was as dry as a bone. No label saying live plants - careful

But mine has about 8 buds now bursting so I am going to plant it in a bucket for the next year or so and grow it on into a larger tree before I commit it to the ground

[piskieinboots]

...so I am going to plant it in a bucket for the next year or so and grow it on into a larger tree before I commit it to the ground

me too Matthew - Snowdrop retires from the Air Force (loud whooping from Pisk) in 2015, it should just about be ready to plant in our 'permanent' home

[WrexTheDragon]

The postman has been and gone today (Saturday), no tree

I hope it is not sitting next to a heater in the post office sorting area.

[21again]

Awaiting a knock at the door today, fingers crossed.

Lets all post pics of how miserable the trees look, then in future years we can look back at this thread to see how they have improved (hopefully).