A FINE MORNING AT THE BEACH
CHERRY BLOSSOMS SURVIVED THE BLIZZARD
WILD SAND CHERRY
SERVICEBERRYSunday, 10 AM. 48 degrees, wind WNW, light but all very changeable. The sky is mostly clear and the barometer predicts sunny skies.
Yesterday we drove through the orchards to see if the cherry blossoms survived the spring blizzard. They appear to be just fine. Last year the blossoms froze and we had no cherries.
It was a fine morning at the beach. The large shrub with the profusion of small white blossoms is the sand cherry, Prunus pumila. There are a number of horticultural selections of this and related cherries.
The small tree covered with white blossoms is a particularly nice specimen of the Juneberry, Amelanchier canadensis. This species, in my opinion, is as effective in the native landscape as flowering dogwoods are further south and east. They make a nice decorative small street tree and I am using them more and more on Bayfield streets.
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