I may be wrong, but I am assuming that the pink was grafted onto the white stock. What do you think? DH wants to cut one of them out and I kind of agree, but I just hate to kill anything that is growing so well, you know? It's probably only alive because I wasn't the one who planted it.
I realize he should have pruned it before now, he's going to be screaming when it comes time to mow the yard, ha ha.
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I, also, suspect it is a grafted tree but I am thinking it's two different varieties, as well. I have a dozen or so flowering crab trees and none of them have the type of grow pattern as the top of that tree does. The lower pink part is very typical.
ReplyDeleteI do have a grafted Bradford pear and the only way you would know that it's grafted is the flowers are two colors. It doesn't have a clear difference as far as branches or growth goes.
I would send you some pictures for comparison but your comment section doesn't appear to let me link images.
Hmm, never thought about it being two different varieties, but who is to know - I guess I can watch to see just what appears on the branches later, if he doesn't cut it out. I don't have any pictures of the white blossoms last week. I know the pink ones develop into tiny (unusable) apples later on.
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Deletei have no idea and no advice. i'd be afraid to kill it. :)
ReplyDeleteThat's me, I don't want to be the one responsible.
DeleteIf it was me I would leave it be. Might be an interesting tree but that's just me.
ReplyDeleteI believe after time it will go back to the original color after time.
ReplyDeleteFind the graft. What ever is growing under that is the root stock. Cut that bit out. but as both are flowering it really wouldn't matter if you leave them both. It makes for a great conversation starter xx
ReplyDeleteWell I'm certainly the wrong person to help with this kind of decision...if it were me I'd leave both. It looks so happy as it is :) I love crab apple trees...we had a huge one in the front yard when I was growing up...I always knew when the crab apple bloomed that the end of school was getting closer :D :D :D
ReplyDeleteI would leave them be. They're beautiful.. :)
ReplyDeleteGrafting is a big deal, someone did that on purpose, I'd leave it be.
ReplyDeleteI don't know anything about grafting, but if it is working, I would leave it alone. Two times for bloom, twice the beauty. Or something like that....
ReplyDeleteThat looks like my nanking bush cherry... very pretty pink!
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