Our crabapple tree has turned crabby. It appears to be dead. All the other crabapple trees in the area have bloomed and are leafing out.
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| A local crabapple. |
Not ours. It is a Sargent crabapple, so it only blooms every other year, but there is not a leaf in sight. We seem to be having a run of bad luck with our smaller trees. Last year we lost a small red bud to Verticillium wilt. This year, it looks like the crab is going to go.
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| Our crabpple. Don't let those late daffodils fool you, there are no blooms. |
The husband is convinced that our son and I dealt it a death blow in 2010 when we lit it for the holidays. Okay, maybe we went a little overboard wtih the lights, but it looked beautiful.
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| Its moment of glory. |
Last summer, after its winter of festivity, it only put out a few twisted, stunted leaves. That appears to have been its last gasp. Still, shoots are coming up from the roots, so it's not completely dead. Nevertheless, I don't think we want to grow a tree from a tiny shoot, so I suppose we'll have to replace it. And then leave the lights off, just in case.
