Front Yard Flowering Pear Tree Budding And Potentially On Path to Growth - February 2022
Day three of the front-yard tree buds in Winter - first with the Saucer Magnolia fuzzy flower buds and then yesterday with the Red Fox Katsura . Today, is the Chanticleer Pear flowering tree that is in the 'in between two driveways' island and planted pretty close to the Katsura. This was a replacement tree that was planted in 2018 after our first one died. This one STRUGGLED. By October of 2018 (four months after planting), it was in bad shape . Turns out, it was planted in a 'clay bowl' and the roots were drowning in what is called the ' bathtub effect ' where water had no where to go. It seemed to continue to decline in 2019 - but by Spring 2020, I was seeing the very FIRST flower buds . Not everywhere. But, some flowers. Then, last Spring - 2021 - we seemed to have a big part of the tree that had died back. And a bunch of the tree that looked to be back on track - and flowering . I ended up cutting off all the dead stuff and created a prett