This very confused tree is wearing its autumn leaves right beside its spring blossoms! There has always been one blossom tree that shoots before the others, but this is the first time its blossomed before it had even shed its leaves.
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3ft as the crow flies, (on the other side of the window), from where I`m sat, lives a Magnolia tree. Every year, as early as the last fading blooms falling from branches, the buds for next year`s blooms are already over inch and half long and still forming. By leaf fall, the tree is covered with 2in+ buds. Hundreds `n` hundreds`n`hundreds of `em.
This tree is a rogue. Damaged as a sapling (I suspect), it doesn`t have one trunk, it has four. Each trunk grows from ground level, at an angle of sixty+ degrees, before reaching for the sky. Its branches touch each of the garden boundries, and it`s as tall as the roof ridge tiles. Spectacular is the only way to describe it at bud burst.
Imagine my disappointment then, when I could see no evidence of new buds forming this year. I put it down to Mother Nature doing what only she knows is best for the tree. Until the other day that is. That`s when I noticed that the tree is now covered with thousands of new tiny buds 1/4 to 1/2inch. Also, I noticed that the branches are putting out very very tender new growth. No leaves on the tree, yet the bloody tree`s still growing! So It would appear that up here in the North West, as well as the deprived regions of the South, Mummy Nat is playing games with us.
It`s such a beautiful sight when it blooms, that I was like a dog with two..er...bones when I discovered the buds for next year.
Take care
Vic
I love walking down our street in spring, it's all cherry blossoms, and the girls and I guess which colour the blooms are going to be. Some are white, some pale pink and some a fabulously glorious fuschia.
This one confused tree isn't the tree that normally has a premature blossoming problem either, that one is pink. So mother nature's done a real number here!