Trees are Fountains of Fertility

Trees are fountains of fertility!
A fountain works by water being pumped up, it sprays up, it falls, it goes back into the fountain basin to be pumped up again.

Trees reach their tap roots down deep and bring minerals up, the surface roots take any nutrients the surrounding plants haven't taken, and all get turned into leaves and flowers and fruit. All of these products get tossed into the air, and come down to improve the fertility of the soil (passing through animals along the way) and the trees uptake it and toss it up again the next year.

Trees are fountains of fertility!
I like that visual!

Trees are fountains of fertility!

I love that image too. I often think about herbacious perennials that way - exploding from the ground exuberantly in spring, and returning to sleep invisibly over winter.

I found some lovely videos from the Woodland trust on various trees (UK) over a years' growth.
Here's the elder tree:


but they have others for other trees as well. I particularly like the ones with blossom though!

Rowan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHoCsCsxExA
Hazel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUKDaZRvDS4
a rather beautiful beech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnwiPETX7Jw

The visual in this thread, of trees being a fountain, was inspired by having a song stuck in my head.
"Trees Eat Us All" which is Charlie McGee from Formidable Vegetable's tribute to Bill Mollison when Bill died.



But trees eat us all in the end
so plant one for me when I’m gone
then if you hear that I’ve died
you can tell them they’ve lied
I’m just shading-out somebody’s lawn.


Or having my nutrients fountained back up into the world! I think that is what I'd like when I die. I want to be eaten by a tree :D