Earth Day Tree 2020 - Chanticleer Flowering Pear - Sideyard
One of the traditions that I've enjoyed keeping up with each year with our kids is the annual Earth Day planting of a tree in our yard. We started with one - a Dawn Redwood in 2017 - that we planted in our new lot while our house was being built. This was a few months before the construction was going to be done. The next year - 2018 - we planted three Earth Day trees. One for each kid. We did a weeping cherry (that we lost), a Red Maple Sun Valley tree that we planted all the way in the back and a flowering pear tree that we planted on the south fence line . Those two have survived since then, but they were VERY small trees. I wasn't measuring them at the time, but when I measured them in January of this year (which would have made these 1.75 years *in the ground* at our house), the maple was just .87" caliper and the Chanticleer Pear was up to 1.20". They were similar when we put them in, so guess it was something lik...