Cherry Amanagawa (Bending in the wind)

[united4ever]

Been in the ground for a couple of years and about 2 metres - it has a cane about 3/4 of the way up, now it has foliage after winter it seems to take the brunt of the wind and is bending quite a bit.

Would you expect to put in a larger cane as it grows higher and higher or would you put two canes meeting at the top.....must admit, I never thought about this and assumed it would not need support - worried about it bending right over or snapping near the top which is fairly unsupported.

see pic

I'd have a proper tree stake and tree tie.

And I think some movement is good, to encourage trunk thickening?

I seem to have forgotten how to do links - have a look on the RHS website about tree stakes.