It seems like we have spent months of rain and cold, snow here and there… finally spring has arrived! March gave us one week of fantastic sunshine and a bit of hope until the rain started again. But the temperature is now creeping up and this is told by the many buds on the trees [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cherry’
20 Feb
Plum Tree Pruning – Take 2
Last weekend I had my first go at pruning the plum tree and after a comment from a visitor to the blog it seemed that I had done it all wrong. Indeed, after taking the good person’s advice and googling “topping off” it became clear that I had make a bit of a mistake with [...]
20 Feb
Plum Tree Pruning – Take 2
Last weekend I had my first go at pruning the plum tree and after a comment from a visitor to the blog it seemed that I had done it all wrong. Indeed, after taking the good person’s advice and googling “topping off” it became clear that I had make a bit of a mistake with [...]
13 Feb
Pruning the plum tree
This is our cherry tree that grows plums (a long story explained in previous posts). During the summer we did notice that a small bit of pruning might be needed during the next winter as it was causing a shadow on most of the grass and the flower beds. It was not until I looked [...]
13 Feb
Pruning the Plum Tree
This is our cherry tree that grows plums (a long story explained in previous posts). During the summer we did notice that a small bit of pruning might be needed during the next winter as it was causing a shadow on most of the grass and the flower beds. It was not until I looked [...]
25 Aug
Plums everywhere apart from on the tree!
I was so delighted the other month to find out out that our non flowering cherry tree had "turned into" a fully fruiting plum tree. The small plums, when turned dark and ripened, are really juicy and full of flavor. So it is a pity that with high winds and birds most of the yet [...]
28 Jul
A Cherry Tree with Plums
Our garden has an ornamental cherry tree which has always been nice, given fantastic blossom in the spring and much wanted shade at times in the summer. I always thought that it I had planted the tree I would had planted a proper full blown cherry tree as I always feel just a little bit [...]
24 Jun
Flower Bed at the Back
I am not too sure about this bit of the garden. It houses the worlds biggest collection of rose bushes in such a small space, fortunately a lot of them are climbing ones. They compete with a cherry tree and a wild elderflower bush. The elderflower grows meters every second or so, while the cherry tree has never [...]
