Cherry tree in flower in Mayfield Road 18-04-2015 001
By Balcony
- 30 Apr, 2015
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Cherry tree in flower in Mayfield Road
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You are quite right! They are lovely for a couple of weeks but you also pay a price with the amount of spent petals!
6 May, 2015
lol but the prob is that the person who has the tree never ends up with the petals, they're blown down the road
7 May, 2015
In that respect you are, again, mostly right! I do know of a garden with a wonderful Cherry tree, that resembles a light pink cloud, whose petals mostly fall to the ground below it, but this is likely to be more of an exception than a general rule!
As Cherry tree flowers have quite light petals they can be carried quite a distance by quite light winds - & lately we have had some VERY strong winds!
8 May, 2015
hmm, they'd make lovely confetti if dried oitu - though it'd brobably be more trouble than it s worth, collectig them
8 May, 2015
Yes, you are probably right! They would make lovely confetti but the job of collecting them up, while avoiding bruising them, would be a terrible job!
10 May, 2015
well, there's one "welfare to work" project in the making!
10 May, 2015
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I like flowering cherries - where I used to live, there was a row of them, pink and white flowers, all down the street. Lovely - but boy did you end up with drifts of spent petals!
6 May, 2015