A Tree Of Two Halves

[poliphilo]

There's a cherry tree in a garden on my in-laws' street which has a top half that lags several weeks behind its bottom half. When the lower branches were blossoming the upper branches were bare- and I assumed it was dying. Now the bottom branches are in leaf and the upper branches are blossoming. I've never seen anything like it before.

Comments

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

Is it a graft, perhaps?

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

The same thing happened to my cherry tree here in southern Spain and it's not a graft.

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

Fascinating. Thanks.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I doubt it, but I can't be definite. It's quite a big tree.

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

It was an idea, anyway. How curious!