Best Way to Care for Your Cherry
We Often Get Asked What's The Best Way to Care for Your Cherry.
No. 1 Problem/Culprit: Water
You will kill your cherry quicker with too much water than not enough. If you're trying to establish a lawn and a weeping cherry at the same time our advice is "DONT". The lawn will require a lot of water and the cherry doesn't. We aren't saying this can't be achieved, we recommend do the lawn first and wait for the cherry.
No. 2: 2 Prune or Not 2 Prune
This is all about what you want out of your cherry. Pictured RIGHT is a cherry we pruned in winter back to 6 inch slems - and this is taken 8th Jan just 6 months later. However we didn't have any spring flower on it. LEFT is one we didn't prune. The foliage is smaller/much but the display we had in spring was amazing.
If you're trying to shape + resize - PRUNE PRUNE PRUNE
If you're happy and love the flowers - LEAVE LEAVE LEAVE
As we had a colder than normal spring this year, the cherry slug has been sluggish (like what I did there). Normally keep eyes peeled December + February but this season now (Jan) keep eyes open.
It's easy to get rid of. Success (pic) is what we use.
SIGNS:
Skeletonising of Leaf - Smell like honey when squashed.
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