Nashville has all kinds of flowering trees in the Spring and Summer. As a Pennsylvania transplant I was in awe our year. After 5 Springs, I’m still awed by the beauty of God’s creation and the wonder of new life springing up.
I’m so happy to have this tree in our yard. It’s a Japanese Flowering Plum and I love everything about it – the pink flower petals that “snow” off in the breeze, the sweet smell, the dark bark and the deep red leaves. It’s 3 or 4 years old and this is the first year it’s really been blooming in all its glory.
Two summers ago we planted a peach tree. It had fruit on it at the time and after a few months we enjoyed about 6 bites of delicious peach. (They were tiny.) Last year we had too much rain and all of our peaches got black spot. This year it’s flowering beautifully, spring has been mild and we’re hopefully for a good turnout this year.
Not as pretty as the flowering plum but that’s OK — because this one serves a different purpose. Each one of those pretty pink flowers has the potential to become a delicious juicy peach.
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What kind of mulch are you using in that second picture?
It’s pine straw (pine needles). It’s great! Comes in bales from Home Depot and it’s cheap. Friends in IL haven’t been able to find it so it might be just a Southern thing. They keep it in tracker-trailers outside of the garden center.
Thanks. I live in Tampa so I should be able to find it here.
Oh, this is encouraging because we just planted a peach tree two weeks ago. Yours is beautiful!