The Ginkgo Experiment
Project Location: Hyde Park & Bowmanville, Chicago
I first remember identifying Ginkgo biloba trees in the fourth grade, when Miss Fennema had each student create a leaf collection. Several years ago, I noticed that a few of the ginkgo trees on the UChicago campus were female and produced a healthy crop of the infamously stinky seeds. I collected a bagful that fall, cold-stratified them in the fridge, and grew a small army of ginkgo tree seedlings in the spring. I’ve reduced the number I seedlings I start each year, but still love to grow these living fossil trees from seed and distribute them far and wide. Go, gink, go!
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