cherry tree

Cherry tree 2023

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Exciting is the best word for it. This Cherry Tree started from a pip dropped by birds and as it starts it’s third year, I have spotted blossom! So am quite chuffed about that.

July 2020

It looked super healthy the first year, and following that one. Last year was a bit touch and go with not watering it enough I think, and a rather slick ant farm operation that installed itself on it. I gave up fighting it in the end, but it struggled through.

And now as the new leaves get going, I spotted two blossom flowers, so am hopeful it will continue well on its growing journey this year.

(c) K Wicks

Painting – Cherry trees

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Trying out some new things, I suddenly decided I wanted to paint cherry trees. The full blossoming kind, you know the ones. And yes, it was a good excuse to use the shimmery pink. But I was quite pleased with myself. It’s a new experience for me being able to recreate in visual format what it is in my head. Drawings are different and dont start with any kind of plan. Painting is now my favourite.

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Cherry Tree…

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A cherry pip dropped into our garden earlier this year and took root. From an established tree in our road, the birds have been distributing the seeds by flyover.

Mostly a few here and there, picked up and discarded so the dog doesn’t eat them. But I planted a few and one appeared growing on it’s own. That’s the one that has made it and I gave it it’s own pot – I can’t have it growing in the ground as it would be too close to the house. Hopefully it makes it through the winter and can be repotted in the spring for the next growing season.

These first two photos were taken in July, only a few months after they sprouted. It’s exciting to see how quickly trees can grow.

Now Autumn has set in, the leaves turned a wonderful orangey yellow and into deep red as the days and weeks have progressed.

I’ll miss the leaves for a little while.

Winter is well on the way, the little cherry tree is taking a bit of a battering and will soon just look like a stick, waiting to burst back into visible life in the spring. I look forward to it.

(c) K Wicks