Plums
Cherry Plums
I have become very fond of Cherry Plums over the years by accident really.
When we first moved to this house there was a small seedling growing in the
garden that when left to grow turned into a vigorous cherry plum tree that
has bright yellow fruit. Up until the last few years it has had a heavy
crop of plums every year. It doesn't now because it is pollarded each year
on the head gardeners orders. In the garden next door is a large dark leaved
Cherry Plum and the two trees between them had given rise to several generations
of trees with green, bronze or dark purple leaves and a range of different
plums.
A similar thing also happened in the allotment as the first year when I took it on I found a small seedling that when transplanted and left to grow also turned into a thriving tree, although the tree in the allotment has plums that eventually turn completely red. It's very early to come into bloom and provide many a breakfast for the wood pigeons. The pigeons like to eat the fresh young leaves at the top of the tree and later the small green fruit.
My one venture into guerilla gardening was to plant a row of small Cherry
Plum trees in the school ground next door after the school had been re-built
and the existing garden trees dug up and not replaced. Now each year they get
bigger with each growing in it's own individual way and each having it's own
distinctive fruit.
Yellow Cherry Plums
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