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.

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[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

I will! So far all I've seen has to do with temperatures and rainfall amounts or the lack thereof. Maybe the climate in many places just conspired to make this happen? So far, no conclusive findings.