I am a week late getting to this post. My ornamental Cherry tree is starting to bloom. In another week the ground will be covered in the blossoms. Very messy. I can't wait to show you photos. But for now it is incredible. It fills in shade in the front of the house and in front of the huge picture window. In the heat of the summer i am very thankful for this tree.
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| Found a robin nest in this tree. |
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| Up close cherry blossom. |
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| My attempt to hide the sewer clean out. Very zen. |
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| Love, love, love my candy tuft. |
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| Like a white cloud! You should see these once the columbine catch up with them. |
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| Blue bells! |
So last year I noticed a blight in the center of my raspberry patch. I wanted to move it anyway because the raspberries obscured the view of my blueberry bushes. So here they are. I hope they live. Some have transplant shock.
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| Newly transplanted raspberry row. |
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| Strawberries in pots. They bloom early because they are above ground. |
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| Broccoli is getting taller; very slowly. |
OK, so first of all, this is Lauren. So our tree is an ornamental cherry tree too, and we've tried to figure out when you're supposed to prune them, one of our branches is reaching our neighbor's house. Do you do it in the fall, or the spring? We've read that if you do it wrong, the whole tree can die.
ReplyDeleteSorry I am just seeing this. So first of all when you prune your tree, you can do it now, thin it. Don't lob off the ends. That looks horrible and unnatural. We had to thin ours. We do it whenever. IT gets very thick. What you want to do is just not take more than one third of the tree. Too much will get rid of too many leaves that it needs for photosynthesis. If you thin it carefully it will look like you never pruned it unless you look for the cuts. But the object it that it still looks like it natural shape. Follow each branch out to the thinnest ones and start by taking those off first. And work your way in. We have only ever taken branches up to 1.5 in diameter.
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