Saturday, March 31, 2012

On Comforting a Yoshino Cherry Tree

What is the matter, little Yoshino Cherry tree?  Why so sad?  Your blooms are so pretty.


Oh, you are sad because you have so few flowers..


You want to be full of blooms like the big trees?


Do not worry.  One day, you too will bear branches full of blooms in the springtime.


You are still so young.  Was it only last year we called you our 'twig'? 

When we bought you, you were such a slender sapling, on sale for a pittance at the home and garden center, leaves riddled with a disease.


You have grown so much bigger and stronger already.


Give it a few more years.  Before you know it, you will be the spring star of the Red House Garden.


And other, younger trees will be looking up to you.