When we moved into our new house, we were excited about the four cherry trees planted in the parking strip along the side of the house. And our excitement was rewarded. Not only did the cherry trees add seasonal beauty to our garden, but also we had some good years for cherries!
These lovely blooms covered the trees and filled the large window in our dining room – lovely!
Beautiful in fall, too.
Stately when covered in snow.
And delicious in summer, of course. Cherry pie from the pie cherry tree was a summer delight.
Last Monday we said goodbye to our cherry trees, to our great dismay. Years of alternately neglect and poor pruning had taken their toll. The pie cherry tree had a canker so bad that we were afraid it would lose a limb onto the sidewalk if it leafed out this summer. The others weren’t quite as bad, but were well on their way, with peeling bark and other nasty symptoms of disease.
We all were sad about their going. Hannah mourned ahead of time, Naomi wept the first 20 minutes or more that the men were working on their removal job. Sim’s sadness was somewhat short-lived, since he found it so intensely interesting to watch the men working in the trees. The three kids spent the 2 hours it took them to cut down the trees standing at the windows of the dining room and watching.
Now we have to decide what to plant in their place. We have until fall. I have to admit that I’m really, really missing them.
1 comment:
Wow. I got teary reading this post. What is a canker? How did you realized the trees were diseased? Why did they have to be cut down now? Why oh why???? This is terribly distressing.
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