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New tree, no branches
cherry-tree
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Hello all. I'm new here, looking for a little bit of help with a new tree I've bought. I'm not great with gardening, so please bear with me if I seem somewhat ignorant!
It's a cherry tree, Japanese flowering, Prunus Kanzan. It's three years old.
It's arrived today and there are no branches at all, not one, there's just the trunk as a long tall line.
It's got a lot of leaf, and there's the residue from older blossoms.
I just thought it should have some kind of branches, I bought a similar weeping cherry a few years ago and it came with many branches, that of course help establish it's shape and it looked great from the next year. This tree has absolutely nothing, not even any signs of any, it will take years before there is any kind of length.
Any help please? Thank you.
It's a cherry tree, Japanese flowering, Prunus Kanzan. It's three years old.
It's arrived today and there are no branches at all, not one, there's just the trunk as a long tall line.
It's got a lot of leaf, and there's the residue from older blossoms.
I just thought it should have some kind of branches, I bought a similar weeping cherry a few years ago and it came with many branches, that of course help establish it's shape and it looked great from the next year. This tree has absolutely nothing, not even any signs of any, it will take years before there is any kind of length.
Any help please? Thank you.
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If you’re really concerned you could always contact the nursery that supplied your tree.
The info here might help https://www.ashridgetrees.co.uk/kwanzan-cherry-trees-prunus-kanzan
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Oh yes, I know, the branches look as though they are praising the skies in their earlier years, and then they get a lovely kind of curl over many, many years.
It's just this has absolutely nothing, no branches to be upright in the first place. Just one tall long stick, not even the beginnings of a branch or shoot.
I've contacted them, but haven't got anything back at all.
Yes, it might just be. Sadly, that's not how it was promoted, they said it's one of the more established young trees you can get, three years old etc.
I wouldn't mind if it was trimmed/trained, it's just there's absolutely nothing.
I have the gardener booked in to plant it, but I'm a little unwilling to plant something I may not be happy with down the line.
I wouldn't mind if there was a few short ones or something, but there's no sign of anything and I don't really want to plant a tree I'll be unhappy with.
I'm really annoyed as I chose that one specifically as it was an older tree.
is the supplier a local nursery or a large mail order supplier?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Yes, it's from a nursery who you can go to, but they also sell online.
That gives you time to follow the advice above about contacting the suppliers - mail, email, telephone, facebook page - and then you can decide whether or not to keep it according to their response.