As the year starts to look like winter is slowly ending, and spring is on the windswept horizon, (on this bitterly cold windy day!) I am thinking of changes I want to make in the garden.
There is something I want in my garden that I don’t currently have…
It’s a tree that I always find inspiring, especially since I visited Japan, which made it even more poignant for me. And that is a flowering Cherry tree. There were two in the garden I grew up in, and there was a pale one, and a mid pink one in the garden I had when I lived in south Derbyshire. There wasn’t one in the garden I had when I lived in Leicestershire though. So this blank canvas of a garden I now have in Kent can easily accommodate one…but where, and what kind is my next conundrum..
I spent yesterday thinking about it and looking at various options online, and came down to two options that I thought were appropriate…some cherry trees are very large, some weeping, some vertical, some pale pink, some mid pink, some a darker pink… So which did I want? And more to the point where was it going to go in the garden? I wanted it to be seen, and enjoyed from the house, as well as being in the garden, and I didn’t want it down the steep slope at the end of the garden even though I am planning on that being a Japanese vertical garden, a cherry tree would be perfect there, but out of sight from the house… And that was the other thing to think about, I know cherry trees are only at their best for two weeks of the year when they flower, the rest of the time they are just there…not looking that spectacular…
So after a think, and today more of a considered plan where I wanted it, I mentioned to my husband I had three options that I thought would be appropriate for it to be put, and told them to him, and asked if he had any preferences.. and he liked one in particular so we’ll go with that option, and I asked him if he preferred the weeping, or vertical one (which was what I was thinking were the better options) and he said "Weeping cherry" which was the one I preferred most too, so we’re both happy on that one… And I’ve ordered it so it’ll come this week.
Which means it can get nicely established for a few weeks before it works its magic and bursts into vibrant and inspiring pink…….so beautiful….so delicate….so glorious…. so inspiring to me…