sapling

"Ultimately we don't understand it but we would really like the sapling back," he said.

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

That syrupy-sweet and shockingly crisp fruit came from an unremarkable sapling that Bedford, then a graduate student, had rescued from the discard pile of a University of Minnesota breeding program.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025

On top of this Alice laid the sapling on which the box and stone were fastened.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

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

The seedlings and saplings are mostly knee-high to chest-high and mixed with thickets of ceanothus and other post-fire brush growing amid the true giants that stand dead among them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

Baimedov, who has become an amateur botanist, tends to about 15,000 saplings, which are aimed at forming a green wall against the sand.

From Barron's ● Dec. 18, 2025

But when his arms had turned to water and he could chop no more, he saw with alarm that he’d only managed to cut down two spindly birch saplings and a puny little spruce.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver