Mid-Atlantic Gardening: FIRST FLOWERS OF SPRING Frost..What the??, 2 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
When we first moved in here--about 2 years later--the whole block planted
kwanzan Cherry trees in their medians. That was 42 years ago....

Most of them have died out over the years...A few still flourish!
Some were taller--some shorter...Interesting.....

We planted 3. they all struggled--and one totally died. One of the others still
hangs on--but is also all hollow...the one in front of my house hads been almost
dead for years now--but I hang on to it because there are birds that nest in all the
hollow stems. One pair of Starlings (or their progeny) ALWAYS return...and they
have claim on the lowest hole that leads into the trunk. it is their "condo".
The tree still puts out a couple branches that bloom. So I hang on to it....

Here is the "landlord'....
And some blooms from several years ago.