Flowering Pear Trees
Decorate Your Garden With Flowering Pear Trees
Blooming in the spring, snowing when they fall - that is what flowering pear trees are all about. The countless small white flowers will transform your garden into a picturesque landscape that will amaze you almost all year round. Flowering pear trees are one of the early bloomers in the spring and grow in a somewhat triangular shape. The little white blossoms look like tiny snow balls and even if you live in a sunny climate area you will get a feel of snowy landscape when they fall onto the ground. As if this wasn't beautiful enough, the green leaves turn red as the fall kicks in. It is truly a piece of art and will beautify even the simplest little gardens and backyards.
Growing flowering pear trees is actually not that difficult. Follow this quick and easy guide which will tell you all you need to know about planting your own!
Location
Not many trees and plants can handle full sunlight, but flowering pear trees can. The only thing you must consider is shelter from wind and stormy weather. Thus, you can plant the tree around other, larger trees or close to a wall. The branches can become a little weak over the years and may break, so it is advisable not to pick a location where you and your family would sit, live or stay under.
Soil
The optimal soil for flowering pear trees is an acidic type. You can ask a professional gardener for more advice, and you may actually have slightly acidic earth in your garden anyway. Find out before you plant the tree to ensure a successful growth. A great way to do that is to take some gardening soil and mix it with compost (this may be home made or bought in store). You can then put this mixture around the roots and on top so that your flowering pear tree gets the necessary nutrition.
Planting
Here comes the digging! You can measure the roots of your flowering pear trees and the hole should be about twice as big as your root. The root flare (trunk base) should be left above the surface, otherwise the tree will not be able to get out. If you have a lot of rocks and other roots in the area where you are intending to plant your flowering pear trees, you should remove those things before planting. This is to make sure that the growing roots are not obstructed or pushed away by obstacles. Once the roots are in, fill the hole with the compost mixture as mentioned above. It is important to water the roots right away and make sure they are always moist. An inside tip: to avoid annoying weeds, use mulch as the top layer for any plant! Weed can virtually not grow through thick mulch.
Maintenance
It is important to remove any dead leaves, branches and twigs in the spring. This is crucial to enable new and healthy branches to grow and make the flowering pear trees look even thicker and nicer. Avoid soaking - this tree needs sun and cannot stand too much water. Only water when the soil is dry. You can certainly control the growth by trimming the tree once in a while but you need to be careful and not chop all that wildly as your tree may not be able to recover when too much is missing.
Whenever you do maintenance work on your flowering pear trees, make sure that you use clean equipment. Especially if you have used a pair of gardening scissors on a plant that was ridden by disease, using the same one right away on a healthy other plant will very often cause it to get sick as well. Thus, to avoid pest and illness, make sure you clean all maintenance tools after each use.