Day 3 How tall is Thor?

I decided to see how tall my tree is.
I used a ruler that had both inches and centimetres.
It looks to me about 10" tall or almost 24cm.

Well it is only about 12 C today and some wind chill. I hope Thor will be okay outside.

The weather forcast is for rain tonight.

Day 2 in a planter

I arrived home and everything is okay with Thor.

I took two more pictures so you can see my tree seedling better!

Our class has their trees!

It was very exciting in class today as the students received their trees.

There was a lot of questions about how to plant it and how often to water it.
Some students have decided to name it already. Some have decided that naming a tree is stupid.

It is a nice sunny day here in Vancouver and a great a day for plating a tree!

I named my TREE!

I decided to research Norwegian names. I really enjoyed learning about Vikings when I was in SS classes . I even included a section on Vikings in my grade 8 class many years ago. So after some thought I am going with a very well-known name in Norway ...THOR.
More next time on what the name means.

Planting the tree

Here are the directions for planting in case you throw the directions out.

Thanks to BC Hydro and Tree Canada for supplying us with our trees for FREE!

I planted my tree

So I found a lovely planter for my tree and I have put it outside near a bunch of ferns.
Now I have to decide on a name. I think it is kinda cute!

OUR Trees have arrived!

Today our trees arrived!
The species is "Norway Spruce".
I have done some research and so far I have found out that...
this is the original species of "Christmas" trees cultivated in the UK.
It has needles and they are 4-sided. The tree is not native to BC.
It can grow very tall (up to 40m in height) if you give it time.
When it matures it will have cones that are cylindrical.
Under the best of care it could grow 1 meter this year!

The wood can be used for building things (not that my tree is going anywhere) like boxes and in the past it was sometimes called "Violin" wood as it can be used for making sounding boards of violins.

I can't wait to plant it!