sapling

The mayor gave each of them a pine sapling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Jez Westgarth, the trust's assistant director for Cumbria and Lancashire, said his team believed the sapling was taken from the remote site to be replanted elsewhere.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

Tyler and Cora steady a western redbud sapling as Atticus holds up a bag of soil and Eliza shovels out the fragrant earth.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026

With increasing urgency, the couple scouted area ponds for suitable release sites, the trick being to find one currently unoccupied by other beavers, with abundant sapling growth as a food supply.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

He looks around, finds a sapling that seems to be just right for what he is searching for, and cuts it down with his hatchet.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

One of the saplings grown from the felled Sycamore Gap tree has been stolen from a castle's grounds.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

Over-population of deer means they graze on young plants and tree saplings before they ever have a chance to reach maturity.

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

Regrown forests, especially with monoculture commercial saplings planted rank and file, may never achieve the splendid complexity of virgin forests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Only raccoons are said to live in the Karlshorst buildings and birch saplings are sprouting out of a balcony.

From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 2026

Then I hid inside a cover of cottonwood saplings and made certain every last ant was gone before I put them on again.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith