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No blossom on plum tree
patannie
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Thanks everyone for the advice re my dead or dying ceanothus. I do have another query though. Further up on same side of garden I have a minarette victoria plum tree. It is civered in healthy looking green leaves but no blossom has appeared. What should I do to encourage it to produce blossom for next season. This tree did not produce much fruit last year after I moved it. In its original position the branches were laden with fruit.
I do have two minarette Apple tree which are covered in blossom at the moment. I know someone out there will help me. Thanks in advance.
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give it blood and bone
Give it time to settle patannie, moving them is always a risk, so keep it well fed and watered another year and you should start to see results.
It's getting it's roots established so may well miss a season or two while it does so - it needs a good root system in order to produce fruit.
Fish Blood & Bone (according to directions on the pack) and ensure that it doesn't dry out (but don't keep it boggy), and a mulch around it with well rotted farmyard manure in the autumn (keep the trunk clear) and it'll do well
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thankyou all for sending these helpful messages. I did actually put the query last year 2013 in May. This year the plum tree had blossom and has fruit on it. I did give it a feed last year so this obviously helped. Thanks again.
This year I have another problem with a small magnolia. I moved it last year in autumn to front garden and all was looking good with flower buds about to open in spring. We were away for a few days and on return the flowers
had either fallen off or dried up. I have left it to see if leaves appear but nothing and it now really looks dead. I have given it a feed of magnia nutrients a few weeks back. So I wait some advice please. many thanks. Pat