Growing Crabapple seedlings has been productive for wildlife. The many blossoms turn into a lot of fruit and hang into winter for the birds.
Category Archives: Shrub
Buried Cattle Pasture
Cattle Pasture has slowly disappeared on this Oasis. The young trees are creating wildlife habitat where there was none before.
Golden View
Golden Leaves can be intense or duller, depending on the cultivar and species involved. While this Forsythia selection has leaves full of vivid color, the Lilac cultivar below is more of a subtle spectrum of colors.
Evan’s Cherry Delivers
The Evan’s Cherry is starting to become plentiful on Kleckner Oasis because of all the suckers I am moving. This is the mother and is full of cherry blossoms. Last year she produced a good crop, so hopefully she starts producing bountiful crops regularly.
Redbud Flower Display
My young Redbud trees are becoming more reliable for their flowering as they mature. I started these trees from seed and soon I will have more seed if these flowers turn into pods later this year.
White Carmine Jewel Cherry Flowers
2 of the Carmine jewel Cherry Bushes I have are loaded with a good flower display. These bushes are getting too big for the little area I gave them. I will have to start pruning them to help control their size, as I thought their height and spread wouldn’t be much more than 6 feet.
Iowa Plum Thicket
The Plums are full of blooms right now. These Plum thickets keep getting bigger and bigger.
Freeze Burnt Flowers
The Ussuri Plum can handle extreme low temps and the flowers can also handle some cold weather. But in the above photo, some of the flowers did get burnt on this plum.
Ussuri Plum Flowers
The Ussuri Plums are full of flowers right now. It can be common for these early flowering trees to have their potential crops to be affected by spring freezes.
Manchurian Apricot Flower Display
Manchurian Apricots are reliable for flowers in early spring. But it is common for the freezes to destroy a potential crop. Not much of a disappointment though, as the fruit is low quality.