Sunday, September 24, 2006

Morning Light

I was out for a walk this Sunday morning and liked the light on the Thundercloud flowering plum, Katsura and Double Weeping cherry

The Thundercloud's are the two purplish/reddish trees. They have beautiful flowers before they leaf out in the spring. The flowers are nice for a week or two depending on the weather, then drop very quickly - creating an appearance of snow on the ground around the trees. The Katsura has the nice pyramid shape and beautiful yellow/orange/red leaves in the fall. I pinched off a lot of branches as it grew to get a nice full shape, and pruned the crossing branches to keep a leader and give the interior branches light. The Double Weeping cherry is a wild looking tree, partly because B doesn't trust me to prune it too much. It has nice flowers in the spring and stays green until after the first few frosts then loses it's leaves. We planted these trees about 15 years ago. I'm lucky to live in an area where there are lot's of trees like these, in people's yards or in the boulevard.









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