(Hope this is in the right thread)
It was a very saddening day and as usual, some of my beautiful trees managed to cheer me up. But the ones that did this greatest lately are pretty unusual ones.
History;
A good few months back (late spring) on one of my usual through country, through parks and etc bicycle ride I had noticed that there were actually trees where I thought I had seen simple plants. I had no idea to what the stone mound was, but heard that it did date back to the world war maybe older…
It was a difficult climb through the wild hederas on the very loose/slippery structure. But very rewarding…
What I had so many times seen and even thought to be a weed of some sort was of my favourites: a cherry tree! I have NO idea to why it was there but it was and it grew between the conjunction of three bricks still stuck to each other.
There were two more that you were not able to see from the road: one almost looked like it was a Larix decidua by branch but had very tiny unmistakable deciduous leaves. I had thought the other to be also a cherry, but of different cultivar…
I returned within an hours ride back and forth to collect them and it was a shocking experience to note how the plants managed to survive in such restricted space between corroded mortars. The removal took up to 4 hours a day for about almost four days. The biggy was the hardest and took longest as I had to first remove bricks (not the usual sized ones these) as it had rooted under the brick it was atop (In such conditions I tend to try covering the exposed roots as I remove the stones).
Now since then I had left them to settle for months save from the cherry that I wrapped with heavy raffia and wired it in autumn to give it a shape I hoped to fit.
THIS is they get odd…
The Big one was simply not a cherry, and not like anything else I know of. It has three different bark structures on the base a bit above the base and the matured branches. Unfortunately I only have winter photo’s that I have taken recently… I do not recall the leaf too well, but I am presuming elm like due to my jumping to the conclusion of cherry.
The odd shaped larix stemmed one (I named it "ribs" for now), really does not fit any of the trees you would commonly find in the wild here.
The leaves did not fall off in the winter cold… and only half of them turned red.
(I did not do any wiring, the wire wrapped around was loose wrapped but left on for later shaping. I preffered to wait until I figure out what this is.
Weirder yet I had planted the branches I had cut off and crudely planted them in a foam pot (for isolation) with not usual precautions of a make do propagation covering. Well these guys bud like crazy two days ago! These are two of the four branches I had planted.
The cherry; (Prunus cerasus to be exact), was of the only normal one… but below are the photo’s of it taken earlier this afternoon… in WINTER in a temperate zone!
The buds are VERY fresh, and this vigour is from only 6-7 days growth with no earlier signs of such activity (Also why it's dressed as a mummy).
No they were NOT nursed indoors; No I have not frozen them and brought them out; No I didn’t even feed them since dropped all the leaves… I have three more Prunus cerasus that are in the exact same conditions and no sign of simiallar growth there… I have NEVER seen anything like it!
(Not really complaining)
Now here’s the bit that my questions come along…
FYI: I live in north-mid Belgium and the whether here HAS gotten better in the last two weeks and has not frozen for some time. Additionally it has been constantly rainy and casually windy (All my plants are well sheltered from winds outside). None of the three has flowered. They were all set on foam benches and had coco fibers or dry leaves carpet to protect from cold. The two had surprisingly litle roots, the big on had a very long log like root about half a meter shaped to fit the mortar; all it's roots spread from here.
The little leaves were not shrunk by defoilation... they are the remainders of the same leaves that were on it from months back.
Unfortunately none of them have a spring photo.
I am almost too sure that all of three have grown from seed thus I have scanned the area for trees similar. I saw a fair amount of prunus, but the search was as a result to no use.
I really hope that one of you know what these three are all about.
Black
Ps; I can provide more photos to your needs or what not.
It was a very saddening day and as usual, some of my beautiful trees managed to cheer me up. But the ones that did this greatest lately are pretty unusual ones.
History;
A good few months back (late spring) on one of my usual through country, through parks and etc bicycle ride I had noticed that there were actually trees where I thought I had seen simple plants. I had no idea to what the stone mound was, but heard that it did date back to the world war maybe older…
It was a difficult climb through the wild hederas on the very loose/slippery structure. But very rewarding…
What I had so many times seen and even thought to be a weed of some sort was of my favourites: a cherry tree! I have NO idea to why it was there but it was and it grew between the conjunction of three bricks still stuck to each other.
There were two more that you were not able to see from the road: one almost looked like it was a Larix decidua by branch but had very tiny unmistakable deciduous leaves. I had thought the other to be also a cherry, but of different cultivar…
I returned within an hours ride back and forth to collect them and it was a shocking experience to note how the plants managed to survive in such restricted space between corroded mortars. The removal took up to 4 hours a day for about almost four days. The biggy was the hardest and took longest as I had to first remove bricks (not the usual sized ones these) as it had rooted under the brick it was atop (In such conditions I tend to try covering the exposed roots as I remove the stones).
Now since then I had left them to settle for months save from the cherry that I wrapped with heavy raffia and wired it in autumn to give it a shape I hoped to fit.
THIS is they get odd…
The Big one was simply not a cherry, and not like anything else I know of. It has three different bark structures on the base a bit above the base and the matured branches. Unfortunately I only have winter photo’s that I have taken recently… I do not recall the leaf too well, but I am presuming elm like due to my jumping to the conclusion of cherry.
The odd shaped larix stemmed one (I named it "ribs" for now), really does not fit any of the trees you would commonly find in the wild here.
The leaves did not fall off in the winter cold… and only half of them turned red.
(I did not do any wiring, the wire wrapped around was loose wrapped but left on for later shaping. I preffered to wait until I figure out what this is.
Weirder yet I had planted the branches I had cut off and crudely planted them in a foam pot (for isolation) with not usual precautions of a make do propagation covering. Well these guys bud like crazy two days ago! These are two of the four branches I had planted.
The cherry; (Prunus cerasus to be exact), was of the only normal one… but below are the photo’s of it taken earlier this afternoon… in WINTER in a temperate zone!
The buds are VERY fresh, and this vigour is from only 6-7 days growth with no earlier signs of such activity (Also why it's dressed as a mummy).
No they were NOT nursed indoors; No I have not frozen them and brought them out; No I didn’t even feed them since dropped all the leaves… I have three more Prunus cerasus that are in the exact same conditions and no sign of simiallar growth there… I have NEVER seen anything like it!
(Not really complaining)
Now here’s the bit that my questions come along…
- Any idea of the species of the first two trees?
- And also; ANY idea to why they might be so joyously budding?
FYI: I live in north-mid Belgium and the whether here HAS gotten better in the last two weeks and has not frozen for some time. Additionally it has been constantly rainy and casually windy (All my plants are well sheltered from winds outside). None of the three has flowered. They were all set on foam benches and had coco fibers or dry leaves carpet to protect from cold. The two had surprisingly litle roots, the big on had a very long log like root about half a meter shaped to fit the mortar; all it's roots spread from here.
The little leaves were not shrunk by defoilation... they are the remainders of the same leaves that were on it from months back.
Unfortunately none of them have a spring photo.
I am almost too sure that all of three have grown from seed thus I have scanned the area for trees similar. I saw a fair amount of prunus, but the search was as a result to no use.
I really hope that one of you know what these three are all about.
Black
Ps; I can provide more photos to your needs or what not.
)... need to lay down an hour or so and then go fetch my little baby (son).
