Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: Yoshino cherry, 1 by pastime

pastime wrote:
I bought two at Lowe's 10 year ago. One turned out to be a double. Very interesting flower on that one. The other one is the focal point on our patio. it's almost wider than it is tall. Pretty flowers in the Spring. It was so beautiful. Unfortunately it's dying. I think it's from winter sun scalled. The bark is splitting and half of it died last spring after it flowered. These trees also gets all the other nasties that ornamentals like crababble, cherry and plums get. They are also susceptible to tent worms. I'm sick about having to cut mine down. I took a picture this morning from an upstairs window. We're still having winter weather here, hence the dead looking landscape. I'm going to see how much of it is still alive and decide whether to just cut off the dead, which is the whole right half of the tree. If it looks really stupid, we'll have to cut it down.