Flowering Pear Tree - In the Fall?!?
About a month ago, I posted a photo of what appeared to be 'new' growth on our struggling Chanticleer Pear Tree that we had planted out front of our house. Here's that post that shows new green leaf growth emerging on the tree in early October . The full history of this tree is long, despite that we've only been in our house a little bit over a year. It starts with the first tree - a 3" caliper version of this tree - being planted before we moved in our new house in June of 2017. That tree didn't survive the year and was ripped out and replaced earlier this year . The new tree struggled, too. But I worked at it. I did some radial trenching and used a post hole digger to break down thru the clay layer to allow the tree to breath a bit. I took a very similar route with the Bald Cypress we planted this Summer - you can see the details here . And the tree managed to survive all Summer. I stopped watering it all together and just monitored it for