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My Cherry tree

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tanith Fri 02-Mar-12 15:56:53

I've just noticed my flowering cherry tree is flowering , usually its a mass of blossom but this year its very sparse and what little blossom there is is being pecked at by the blue tits (why do they do that ?) so there is hardly anything left. Most of its now on the ground.
Just wonder if anyone has a theory as to why its not bloomed as usual?

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Annobel Fri 02-Mar-12 16:08:18

Are the bluetits looking for insects on the blossom? They have made a mess of my viburnum bodnantense. An odd thing has happened - a viburnum - not bodnantense - that I'd given up on has produced blossom for the first time in about nine years, though only at the very top. It's pretty straggly, so will get a good pruning when it stops flowering. A lot is happening - plenty of hellebores, of various colours and sizes and I don't know where they all come from; presumably they are spread in bird excrement as most of them are growing close to the fence where the birds perch!

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