Our flowering tree.
Before I forget, I must reveal that it was a sparse season for our front yard flowering dogwood.
The blossoms came and went quickly. They were more spare. They were not as bright white. I’m chalking it off to the lingering stay of winter.
Hopefully the dogwood will have a more robust growth cycle next year.
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My sheltered dogwood did pretty good this year but… my other dogwood did not. It was very sparse! I’m blaming the long winter as well!
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We have the same culprit, Nance.
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The tree is pretty even if it only bloomed a little. Better a few white flowers than a lot of white icy crystals.
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You sure got that right, CM.
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I can’t imagine what our tree would have looked like if all of the buds that coated the ground actually stayed on the tree this year.
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Wow. Things can be so different a few states away, MBC.
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The poor tree just needed a little bit of rest, bro Mark. It takes a lot of effort for a little beginner to make it thru a winter that refuses to go away, so I’m surprised it bloomed at all. We had a kind of skimpy spring as well — but part of that was normal, if anything is considered normal now. Winter didn’t get bad here until late February and then just seemed to like the atmosphere in the area so it stayed forever! It’ll be interesting to see what summer brings.
Hard to believe tomorrow is already Memorial Day! I think I’ve lived too long!
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Here’s to the best summer, sis Angie.
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one of my fav kinds of trees. the one in my yard has not even bloomed yet –
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Wow, that’s a big difference in cycle, Beth! I hope yours has a big bloom year.
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