Crabapples & Flowering Pears

It was officially Spring two months back. But, Chicago weather currently seems to be into the Spring mode. This climate is simply amazing. The temperatures are perfect ranging from 60-65 degree F, slightly foggy, pleasant rains, lush green landscapes and trees set in colorful blooms everywhere.

Crabapples & Flowering pears are the trees dominating the landscape with its beautiful blooms at this time. We have three "Sugar Tyme" crabapples of which two of them failed to bloom this year. After doing some research I found out, it is possible that the flower buds might get affected if there is a bad winter & lot of temperature fluctuations. This is how the tree looked last year.

We have three "Chanticleer" flowering pears in our yard. All of them had perfect blooms. One was planted the previous year(2007) & the other two planted last year(2008). This tree looks very beautiful once it grows to a decent size (still couple more years for our trees to reach that size :-)).

"Sugar Thyme" crabapple with its pink buds, all set to bloom...

Closeup of the flower branch with the slgithly opened blooms...

Closeup of a single bloom....with some pink buds in the background...

"Sugar Tyme" Crabapple Blooms which turned white in color...once fully opened...

"Chantincleer" flowering pear blooms...

"Chantincleer" flowering pear blooms...closeup view...

New Beginnings!

Weather here is very unpredictable. There are some spring days followed by occasional cold days followed by some sunny days. But, with the arrival of spring, our garden got activated. There are some kinds of signs on each & every plant.

Flowering pear & crabapples were the first trees to invite spring with a display of white flowers all over the tree. Since our trees are small there is not much shape of the tree this year. Maybe in 3-5 years the crown of the tree will be more dense and will portray many more blooms.

Crabapples have the buds in dark pink color which fades to white when the flower blooms.