Tag: Kwanzan Cherry Tree

Our Kwanzan Cherry Tree In The Wind

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Our Kwanzan Cherry Tree Which Has Yet To Be Demolished This Year By The Beetles Which Ravage It Annually.

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This video was done more to test the manual focus on the camera I use, the Sony NEX-5N

Shot with Sony NEX-5N and Sony 50mm f/1.8 Lens

I have a love hate relationship with this tree.  when it blooms it is beautiful but every year it gets smoked by these small green inchworm looking things first and then these shiny beetles and looks nice for roughly 3 weeks out of the year.

I’ve chronicled the life of this Kwanzan Cherry tree for the past 4 years here

here are some of the blooms from this year-

Our Charlie Brown Kwanzan Cherry Tree Progress Report April 13,2010

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Now that we are entering the third spring of the blog the folks that have been with us from the start will recognize my annual fascination with our Kwanzan Cherry Tree and it’s progress from dormancy to budding to the full on blooming stage.

To view the past few year’s Charlie Brown Kwanzan Cherry Tree posts including how we bought it and what kind of luck we’ve had you can check out the past posts about this one particular tree–

Our Charlie Brown Kwanzan Cherry Tree Progress Report April 13,2010, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

click pictures for full sized versions

Kwanzan Cherry Tree 5/3/09

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Kwanzan Cherry Tree 5/3/09, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

 

Kwanzan Cherry Tree 5/3/09

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The buds are really opening up now.  Those reddish leaves will turn green in a couple weeks.

Kwanzan Cherry Tree 5/3/09, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

 

Kwanzan Cherry Buds Popping In The Yard

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Long time GMG readers know about our Kwanzan Cherry tree that we nearly gave up on last year after  years of blah results.  The thing about the Kwanzan cherry tree that I love is the clusters of 3-5 buds that pop out of every shoot.  It makes for a spectacular display when in bloom.

You can read this post from May 8th last year when they popped.

Kwanzan Cherry Buds Popping In The Yard, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

 

Kwanzan Cherry Tree March 31,2009

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Some of the long time GMG readers will recall my fasination with spring, and the development of our Kwanzan Cherry tree and also The Rosa grows along the shore.  This is the first signs of life with the buds starting to form on the Kwanzan Cherry.

Click this link to find more info and pictures of Kwanzan Cherry Trees in full bloom.

Kwanzan Cherry Tree March 31,2009, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

 

 

 

Kwanzan Cherry Blossoms 5/8/08

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Kwanzan Cherry Blossoms, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Kwanzan Cherry Finally Blossoms

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I was about ready to give up on our Kwanzan Cherry Tree that we bought at Lowe’s four years ago.  Until this year it’s growth and flowering has been less than spectacular.  it was the Kwanzan Cherry equilvilent of a Charlie Brown Christmas Tree.

Well, just last week we were contemplating digging it up and replanting it off in a back corner of the yard and replacing it with something more mature.  When I got home from work yesterday something happened overnight because a huge number of buds popped and are in the process of opening up.  The flowers are spectacular and I’m so glad we didn’t dig her up.  It looks like she finally took hold and is growing with new shoots and a ton of new buds that are ready to pop.

Kwanzan Cherry Finally Blossoms, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Kwanzan Cherry Tree Flowers

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Kwanzan Cherry Tree Flowers, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Buds Popping On Our Kwanzan Cherry Tree

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Buds Popping On Our Kwanzan Cherry Tree, originally uploaded by captjoe06.