Planting Weeping Cherry Tree
redice
15 years ago
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morz8 - Washington Coast
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Comments (3)I forgot to say that it is ninebark of the "Diablo" variety, because there are other ninebarks with other colored foliage, including I think golden. The ninebark looks great with blue green evergreens. Oh, and for another plant that looks good mixed with evergreens, there is redtwig dogwood, which has light green leaves but bright red twigs. Another plant that gives you a burst of red color in the fall is winterberry holly. It's not evergreen like some hollies, but really bright with the berries. But you have to have a male and female bush to get the bright berries. The male bushes are somewhat smaller and inconspicuous. Bunnies love to gnaw on winterberry twigs though, same with blueberries. There are other evergreen hollies that also have red berries if you're set on evergreen....See MoreWeeping cherry tree - two trees
Comments (6)Definitely a bad graft with the standard cherry suckering. This happens to a lot of ornamental fruit trees. You'll have to cut the white flowered trunk off at the collar (just past where it meets the main trunk). It sounds like both trunks are the same size? That means this problem started as soon as you planted it. A picture would help a lot. Make a CLEAN cut on an ANGLE just past the branch collar. It is probably too thick to use loppers, so purchase a decent pruning saw (Lowes, HD sell these), and make a starter cut at the bottom of the branch, angling up and in toward the tree, then do the rest of the cut from the top of the branch, angling toward the bottom cut (away from the tree). The cut is on an angle to shed water. You must do a cut on the bottom first so that when you cut from the top it doesn't pull down and rip the bark along the main trunk, which can kill the tree. Do this now or wait until next year and do it in early spring before the buds break. Do not wait much longer, because right now the cherry will use it's energy to heal the wound, but if you wait until May or later it will have used most of it's energy in flowering and growing new branches and will not heal quickly at all. The standard cherry will grow about 20 feet high. Depending on the rootstock, it may even bear fruit. Standard cherries are hardy trees, and it will definitely end up killing your weeping graft if you don't get rid of it soon. As for it looking odd, don't worry, in a few years the weeping tree will grow to the other side with proper pruning. Right now the other tree is preventing it from growing that direction. Once it is gone the other side will start to thrive. The sun exposure alone will help a lot. Don't expect too much this year though, since it will be focusing its energy on healing....See MoreWeeping cherry big root
Comments (2)Japanese flowering cherry trees often grafted onto sweet cherry, which produces nuisance roots as you have described. Add some good, well-aerated soil to bring the grade up to the level of the roots. But do not bury the crown of the tree, that is the point where the uppermost roots emerge from the trunk....See MoreTransplanting a weeping cherry tree
Comments (9)When it's dormant the ground is likely too cold for the roots to survive isn't it? ==>> do all the tree in your area die in winter? ?? .. of course not ... besides.. you in z7 dont know what cold is ... the issue is.. how do you support green leaves.. when you are going to cut off a lot of its roots ... there will be reduced water pressure in the plant ... as it transpires ... so if you move it leafless ... you eliminate that stress entirely .... and 4 to 6 weeks prior to leaves.. it gives the tree time to get its roots settled.. and start pumping water.. for the emerging leaves to work with ... that is the perfect world ... it can be done other time.. with severe stress to the plant.. but sometimes you just have to do.. what you have to do ... for whatever reason ... but you seem to have ignored/missed my other point ... are these extremely low power lines .... or what ... its a WEEPING tree ... it does not have 100 foot potential ... ken ps: try not to give inanimate tree .. people like properties ... cant remember the word ... just because you think its cold .. dont assume a zone appropriate plant thinks its cold ... mostly cause they dont think or feel ... ah .... Anthropomorphism...See Morecalistoga_al ca 15 usda 9
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