Last spring the night before our lawn was to be aerated a violent windstorm blew the seeds off our maple tree in one fell swoop So when the aerating machine broke up the compacted soil by pulling small ldquo cores rdquo out of the ground it planted hundreds of maple seeds in my yard Just two short weeks later I had the beginnings of a maple forest growing up through my lawn As I frustratedly surveyed the misplaced foliage I was struck by the prolific abundance of new life a single tree had spawned Each of the miniature trees became
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