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Are weeping flowering cherry trees a bit naff?

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MaryIsA · 16/03/2021 07:06

I’d love a flowering cherry, but it has to be small. Already got an upright dark flowering cherry. Looking at a white weeping cherry. For front garden.

Just thinking is it a bit 70s in a non ironic way....

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Teflondreams · 16/03/2021 07:11

I think they are beautiful. I don’t see how a tree can be associated with the 70’s, but then I was born in the 80’s so maybe missed that! It wouldn’t bother me anyway.

LubaLuca · 16/03/2021 07:16

I've never looked in someone's garden and thought the trees could do with updating - trees don't go in and out of fashion.

ChardonnaysPetDragon · 16/03/2021 07:18

You’re the one looking at them, what matters is that you like them.,

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TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross · 16/03/2021 07:19

How can a tree be naff?

Somethingkindaoooo · 16/03/2021 07:20

Now TREES are trendy/ not?

If you like it, go for it

Pinkandpurplehairedlady · 16/03/2021 07:21

I have a weeping cherry in my front garden and I love it. The blossoms are beautiful.

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MaryIsA · 16/03/2021 07:25

I think I have memories of beautifully manicured lawns with a weeping tree as the centrepiece.

That’s reassuring.

I love trees and am trying to cram as many in as possible.

Also have a garden designer friend who is a great nose wrinkler at certain plants....

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MaryIsA · 16/03/2021 07:27

It’s a prunus snow showers and apologies I thought I’d put this in gardeners corner!

They know naff...

Are weeping flowering cherry trees a bit naff?
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Didiusfalco · 16/03/2021 07:32

They’re beautiful. I kind of know what you mean that there are fashions in planting, like when people used to plant beds of hybrid teas, which wouldn’t happen now. At the moment the natural look is popular over very manicured lawns and beds. But this is just a lovely tree, and unless you’re creating a show garden, you should just plant what you like and enjoy it.

stella1know · 16/03/2021 07:35

If they don’t offer nectar to bees and are purely ornamental, and don’t produce any cherries, then yes, will be seen as passé unfortunately.

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MaryIsA · 16/03/2021 07:35

I do love a tree in full blossom. We had to take out a column at cherry tree when we moved in as v badly planted and about to fall over.

But yes there are fashions in planting.

The front garden is becoming very cottage garden.

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MaryIsA · 16/03/2021 07:36

Ooh passé is a good word. It’s a single flowering cherry, do bees not like them?

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WhyZed · 16/03/2021 07:38

They're stunning. I used to have one in my front garden, it was also fairly small (under five foot). Looked brilliant all year round, attracted birds and bees and many people stopping to look particularly at the blossom. I've never heard of a tree being naff, I would think having silly opinions on naffness of trees makes people unbearable bores.

Flaunch · 16/03/2021 07:42

@stella1know

If they don’t offer nectar to bees and are purely ornamental, and don’t produce any cherries, then yes, will be seen as passé unfortunately.
A trees wildlife value isn’t only to us or bees.

Plant what you like, as long as it isn’t Lelandii or other ridiculously large conifers.

Shehasadiamondinthesky · 16/03/2021 07:47

They are lovely. Its pampas grass that is utterly 70's and totally naff.

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MaryIsA · 16/03/2021 07:50

We took out 2 huge totally neglected pampas grass too. I’m replacing with stipa tennuissima...no doubt that will be passé soon too.

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Kottbullar · 16/03/2021 07:50

@Shehasadiamondinthesky

They are lovely. Its pampas grass that is utterly 70's and totally naff.
Pampas is back in!
Kottbullar · 16/03/2021 07:51

@MaryIsA

We took out 2 huge totally neglected pampas grass too. I’m replacing with stipa tennuissima...no doubt that will be passé soon too.
Shock hope you sold the stems, they can go for £10 each.
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MaryIsA · 16/03/2021 07:52

@stella1know

If they don’t offer nectar to bees and are purely ornamental, and don’t produce any cherries, then yes, will be seen as passé unfortunately.
Just looked it up...prunus snow showers, awash with bees apparently.
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MaryIsA · 16/03/2021 07:52

Yeah, you see I didn’t keep the stems, I could have funded their removal with that.

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stella1know · 16/03/2021 07:53

@MaryIsA single-flowering is good 🙂. It is double flowering that looks prettier but has less value for pollinators, especially wild bees. Try and get one that produces fruit, if it isn’t too much of a hassle to clean/collect/compost, and check the lifespan of the tree. Some ornamental cherries are only healthy for 12-15 years, but I think that is generally the double-flowered ones that don’t reproduce. Of course, they have wildlife value as dead wood and stumps for a decade after, as long as you leave the dead wood in place for birds and insects, but I think the OP wants a pretty tree. Think about crab apple or wild pear or wild cherry or cornelian cherry too, as alternatives for blossom.

Shehasadiamondinthesky · 16/03/2021 07:53

Pampas is back in!

Nooooooooooooooo, I refuse to believe it!!

HasaDigaEebowai · 16/03/2021 07:56

Pampas is very trendy!

Kottbullar · 16/03/2021 07:57

@MaryIsA

Yeah, you see I didn’t keep the stems, I could have funded their removal with that.
Nooooo. Apparently people are going out at night and stealing pampas stems. There's a huge one in a local park which has been completely butchered.
HasaDigaEebowai · 16/03/2021 07:57

I'd go for amelanchier. Its my favourite flowering tree for a small garden

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