LOST: Japanese Flowering Kwanzan Cherry Tree - September 2023
Add two trees. Take one away. That's what has happened recently with the addition of the pair of Kousa Dogwood trees along the garage wall (pre-espalier) . And now...the documenting of losing one of the original trees that I planted when we bought our lot: a Kwanzan Flowering Cherry Tree. Before we moved in, we planted five trees: a dawn redwood (Died and replaced), a Chanticleer Pear Flowering Tree (in the back, between the tree swing tree and the Hornbeams. Still alive). A pair of Greenspire Linden trees that I've espaliered. Still alive. And this Japanese Flowering Cherry tree. Now dead). After we moved in, I planted a Corkscrew Willow (dead) and a Crimson King Maple (also dead). That first year, our landscaper planted two trees: a Saucer Magnolia and a Flowering Pear Tree. The first of which died, but was replaced. All-up, that means that first year (2017), we planted: 9 trees. 5 of which (now) died. Three were not replaced (Willow, Flowering Cherry,