Cherry Trees

[MuddyWitch]

Two warm days & our Lane is pink & white with cherry blossom.

All the houses down our bit of the Lane (except the one rebuilt last year) were built by 'speculative developers' in the 1920's. Most of them used one building firm to do the actual building work & the chief was a Mr Cherry. Each house for which he had responsibility had a cherry tree planted in the front garden. On the North side they had dark leaved, pink flowering ones & our side had the green leaved, white flowering type.

Sadly the one in our garden had died before we moved in. We had planted a young cherry of the right type. When we were told of the story by our neighbours, who assumed that we had done this on purpose to replace the lost one. Not a bit, it was a young 'gift' tree from the birds that I'd found the day I brought DD2 home from the hospital & it had moved house with us, twice!

We will take several of her daughters with us to Ireland & think of Mr Cherry, & his lovely bit of town planning, every Spring.

MW

[sammyh]

That's so nice. I always look forward to cherry trees in blossom, so beautiful.

Sam

[thesunflowergal]

I wish builders where so thoughtful now, what a lovely story.