Pink

I don’t know if this is a crabapple tree or some other kind of fruit.

Whatever it is, I’ve never seen any actual fruit on it in five years here.

But we do get these pretty pink flowers with all of these honkin huge “whiskers” (actually called “pistils” I think?) on them.

The bees and hummingbirds love them.

Today there are only the two blossoms, but give it a week or two, they’ll be everywhere!

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3 responses to “Pink

  1. I’m pretty sure that’s a peach tree rather than a crabapple. Crabapple flowers are more layered (like a rose). With your weather, I doubt a peach tree would grow fruit naturally. They need a full winter of freezing weather to grow fruit.

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    • Thanks! That’s very helpful. The landlord had it all covered with this plastic mesh and I was under strict orders to leave it up – he thought the tree never gave him fruit because the birds were eating it all. All that I ever saw was birds getting caught in it. I saved a couple of hummingbirds, but one or two of the hose finches didn’t make it, so I shredded it and pulled down most of it.

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