We've noticed that a number of young sycamores are growing along the top of the storm beach just to the north of Golspie. They must be pretty hardy to have survived the winter gales and salt spray.
I assume they grew from seeds - known as 'keys' - blown along the coast from a number of big sycamores in the castle's forestry a few hundred metres to the northeast but this species is a master at seizing the opportunity to propagate by any means available, for example by....
....exploiting a bit of leaf mould and rotten wood in an old fallen tree and even....
....sending out shoots from logs cut when a number of sycamores were recently felled. I assume that, for this effort to be successful, the new sycamore would have had to put down roots from the log into the underlying soil.
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