Garden growing

This is the tree at the north-east corner of the raised garden, the one that was "rescued" from all the overgrown brambles, etc. It is growing from below the garden, and its trunk has been shaped by the weather and the vines that were strangling it. It has a lovely shape.

Its leaves are like cherry or plum. I think it is a form of cherry (Prunus), but it seems too tiny to be a Black Cherry (Prunus serotine), and the flowers are more numerous and distinctive than those of the Pin Cherry (Prunus persylvanica). The flowers are bright white, small, many of them, in racemes about five inches long.

Some of the flowers.

I am more and more convinced that the mystery trees are hawthornes. Without thorns.

The tree-next-door is clothed in beautiful green.


Another one of the oriental poppies has opened! White with black spots.