That looks a lot like the tree we have in our garden, and I believe that is a Japanese Cherry.
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Definitely Japanese Cherry. I live near a bunch of these and they look just like this
They are beautiful.
There are parks in Japan that have a ton of the trees in the same park, so when the petals fall there are so many that they make a carpet over the water
Gardener: “If I trim these branches way back, they won’t sprout.”
Flowers: “That’s what you think.”
This usually happens when a tree is stressed
I wish I sprouted flowers when I was stressed.
For real
Epicormic growth and not always no some trees like the Sakura cherry just do it some times. It should definitely be checked out for health but it's not necessarily a sign of stress.
Thanks for the new word
If that's interesting to you then this might be as well: the Sakura cherry is prized as a cherry both for it's beauty and the fact that it can be pollarded in a very specific Japanese fashion called daisugi.
https://haltonmastergardeners.com/2020/08/09/daisugi-or-coppicing/
So much more elegant than the rashes I get when stressed.
Flowers look exactly like sakura. But yes it's strange to see the flowers that low.
The tree at the background has the same flowers, and it's also sakura.
It's a badly tended Sakura, you don't normally see them like that because they're normally tended to not have low growth so growth stays focused on the crown.
dogwood?
Dogwood would be white
Dogwoods come in shades of pink and red too, plus their blossoms look completely different.
I guess I was too young and never questioned it. Growing up we called them pink and white dogwoods around Tennessee. ~~Almost~~ certainly wrong.
There are pink dogwoods, but this is a japanese cherry
And stinky
It’s definitely a cherry tree.
Pollen producing bastard