Update on our landlady's memorial tree for @parul2411's #ThursdayTreeLove

 
 
1. This is from May 2015, which is the first year the tree was planted on the property.
 
 
2. As I said in an update to my post in April, I chatted with my landlady a few days after I'd posted (and sent her the pics), and she said that yes, as @bdmillergallery suggested on Twitter, the tree is a Dwarf Weeping Cherry Tree.
 
 
3. As I also said in that post, while it was amazing that first year, that first winter was not kind to it, and many of the branches needed to be trimmed. This shot is from April 2020, and while it wasn't nearly as lush as five years prior...
 
 
4. ...it still had a decent amount of blossoms.

 
 
5. Fast forward to this year in May and what a stark contrast! When I talked to our landlady in April, she wasn't sure the tree had survived at all, as it didn't look like any of the branches were beginning to sprout. However on May 13th (which is around the time it usually blossoms), I noticed it was at least showing signs of life, so I grabbed some shots, as I was already contemplating doing an update post.
 
 
6, While there were no signs of buds, it's definitely still sprouting.
 
 
7. Oh, and the reason the tree was cut back so much is that it got infested with some type of pest (yes, the landlady said what it was, and it almost immediately fell out of my brain, so now I have a new question to ask her next time I see her...lol).
 
 

 
 
8. Fast forward a little bit more to today. While this shot isn't the greatest (I didn't realize when I framed it that the green of the tree would blend so much with the background greenery) you can tell it has a fair bit of growth, especially in just about a month.
 
 
9. This one is a bit better and shows that while it's not cascading in gorgeous flowers, it's still far from gone.
 
 
EDITED TO ADD:
9a. While I was out today (June 24th, 2021) taking pictures for a new Thursday Tree Love post, I got another shot of the tree with our landlady's garage as the backdrop, so you can get a better sense of the growth in the past month or so.
 
 
10. Lots of growth still evident.
 
 
11. And looks like there's still more growing to go!
 
 
12. Even at the spots where the dead branches were pruned, there's signs of new ones on the way to replace them.
 
 
13. However, I'm not sure if this bit of white fuzziness is a sign of more infestation - I plan to mention it to our landlady soon, to see what she thinks,
 
 
14. But for the moment, it's still putting forth new greenery and stretching towards the sky, which gives me hope on so many levels and was just the soul tonic I needed today!

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