Cherry blossoms — hopefully OK after freezing

Last week, we had two nights, I think, with low temps around 26°. That’s cold enough to kill some cherry buds, and I’m not sure how mine are doing. By the way, mine are Lapins cherries.

_mg_1264.JPG This branch is showing a lot of brown cherry blossoms, but I really don’t know if that’s simply what they look like after they’re done or if it was frost damage that created the brown withered look.

_mg_1265.JPG Despite the presence of some blossoms turning brown, there still were plenty of newly opened blossoms like these ones. I’m pretty sure we’ll get a decent crop of cherries from these trees. Let’s keep our fingers crossed!

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  1. Good news! We harvested two giant bowls of cherries on July 5th, and they were great. So, the freezes didn’t really harm the crop.

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