speaking of amelanchiers

I bought this amelanchier about 15 years ago, to go in a pot beside the front door of the house where we lived. I nursed it carefully for the first 18 months of its life. Then we had to move out, leaving it behind and it sat in its pot, entirely neglected first by builders, then by tenants for 10 years.

4 years ago, when we sold the house it got hoiked out of the pot, dumped in a bin bag, slung into the back of an estate car laid flat, and suffered quite a lot of fairly severe damage to its main stems.

When it got to me here, I bandaged it's wounds with electrical tape (all I had to hand) and potted it into a bigger pot with some decent compost (probably it's first square meal in a decade) but it had to stand in a shady, windy spot for 18 months or so, until better accommodation could be found.

Autumn before last I managed to get it into the ground. Last year it flowered quite well, but struggled over the summer with rather dried up leaves and I did wonder if I'd see it again this spring.

But look at it now! What a fantastic and forgiving plant