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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

Centuries after a group of travellers planted a sapling and waited to see if it would live, the answer is still there.

From BBC ● May 2, 2026

Martina Irwin, a co-founder of the Tree Sanctuary in Coventry, said planting its sapling would be really special.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025

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

There was such strength to her movements — she swung her arms as if she were holding nothing at all, certainly not a sapling in full leaf.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

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

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

From Sycamore Gap saplings to 'trees of hope'

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 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

The tree itself was shrinking, growing smaller with each vision, whilst the lesser trees dwindled into saplings and vanished, only to be replaced by other trees that would dwindle and vanish in their turn.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin