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| Last season both my pink dogwood and knanzan cherry did not flower...We unfortunatley had to cut down the trees shading the dogwood so it was in full sun....That might be the problem.....
I have no idea what the problem was with the cherry since it bloomed so nicely every other year...Perhaps it is getting "old" since we have had it about 25 years...Can anyone suggest Fall care that might aid in Spring blooming for either tree. Thanks you ! |
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- Posted by toronado3800 Z6 St. Louis (My Page) on Mon, Oct 22, 12 at 15:10
| Joyce, the trick with most trees is to do relatively little. You can over achieve and get a soil test then fertilize IF needed in the early spring but I dunno. Trees are a permanent thing so we don't want to start a lifetime of maintenance. One of my dogwoods took the drought way worse than the rest and it was the one which had a tree near it removed also. Did you do any pruning last year which may have removed the flower buds? Our sunmer sucked on a historic level this year. Was your weather strange in any way? |
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| I did not do any pruning but we did have a rather "rotten" summer of either rain or extreme heat....Perhaps the weather was the culprit. Thanks for your response. |
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| Its unlikely anything you do in the fall can affect it, other than pruning away the flower buds. The buds for the next season start forming in the summer and are essentially fully developed by mid fall. The prior summer may have affected the Dogwood blooming. I've seen Dogwoods fluctuate a great deal between years as far as their flowering is concerned; one year with a very wet summer was followed by a very poor bloom year the next spring. As far as the cherry... if its starting to look rather old, it may help to give it a hard cut back to rejuvenate it. I've seen Kwanzan Cherries kept going by this method. Its not pretty, but it works. Otherwise, Kwanzan Cherries tend to gradually decline after 25-30 years of age. |
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