Winter Damage - Japanese Cherry Tree - January 2019
I was out puttering around the yard on a mild Winter day recently doing a little bit of bud inspection to see what trees had put off when I found this break in this Japanese Kwanzan Flowering Cherry Tree in the backyard. I bought this tree in May of 2017 when it was a small (maybe .75" caliper) tree from Menards after I had just come back from my first trip to Tokyo where I saw *their* Cherry Blossom trees. The tree (in the garden center at Menards) caught my eye because it was flowering these beautiful, puffy, almost-peony-like pink flowers . At the end of June/early July of 2017, right when we were moving into our house in Downers Grove, I got around to planting the tree in the yard . About half-way back in the yard, on the southside of the property. Not sure, exactly why it ended up there. Just *felt* right at the time. Looking at the tree now, I think it is in a good spot and the placement ended up being appropriate. The first season it was in the ground - Spring