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    Can anyone help explain, my work collegues and I are confused by a cherry tree near our office. It's quite a large mature tree covered with white flowers but with one branch of large 'knicker-pink' flowers. My bet is grafting gone a bit wrong but looking good.
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    As a student in America I visited Washington D.C. at cherry blossom time and was blown away by the beauty of it. The delicacy seemed just right for the plan of the city and its majestic buildings.
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    I am pleased to learn about the "fleeting beauty" thing - perhaps I knew about it and forgot ... we used to live in Tokyo and were dismayed that the blossoms seemed to appear and disappear within a very short period of time whereas the blossom in the UK seems to last for weeks .....
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    GreenThumbelina: Having also lived in Tokyo, I was also a little frustrated at the brevity of the blossom period. In Tokyo most of the trees seem to be of the same "Yoshino" variety; so they all bloom and fall at the same time. In England there seems to be more diversity of cherry which makes for a more drawn out season, though one that is at no point as spectacular as that in Japan.

    Happymarion: in case you don't already know, many of the cherry trees in Washington DC were a gift from the Japanese government.
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    Sanjuro-san,
    Arigato gozaimasu! Thank you for that information. It is very interesting. I recall that we loved hanami but I wondered whether it was simply because we loved Tokyo! My recollection of my hanami-experience is a little hazy due to sake-induced dementia ...
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    What is bacterial canker. My cherry tree has something like 'gum' oozing from the trunk and the leaves develop holes in the summer, curl and then fall off. Is there a cure.
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    Adore cherry blossom but how do you tell if the cherries are edible please?
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    This has been the best year for many for blossom on our aged wild cherry tree - but it never seems to have fruit - perhaps they are so high up the birds eat them before we can see them? Also the apple blossom is partucularly good this year too. Has anyone else found this?
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    Mary - this is the third year running the fruit blossom has been particularly good due, I believe, to the wet summer the year before. If we do not have a late frost to kill it before the fruit sets then we are in for a bumper harvest. The pollen on the willow trees was also very prolific so thousands of bumble bees were enticed into my garden - all good for the fruit crop.
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    franellis81: You can easily tell the edible cherries as they will be the ones that the birds eat before you get anywhere near them!
    All cherries are edible but some taste horrible.Probably the best fruiting variety is Stella that can be bought on dwarfing root stock so it does not grow too tall. You must net the tree to protect your crop.
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