Re: flowering almond (Prunus glandulosa)


>  It was apparently Prunus glandulosa 'Sinensis', the double pink 
> flowering almond.  It was a small-medium deciduous shrub that was 
> relatively non-descript during most of the year, but in early spring was 
> clothed heavily with small, rounded, double pink flowers -

I know and grow this- you're right, most of the year 'nondescript' is the 
word, but  Oh! those two weeks!
I have found that it flowers best on one year old wood,and new growth is 
very much better-looking than old, so I cut it right back after 
blooming.  I am always being asked for suckers if anybody sees it in 
bloom.  It also likes more fertilizer here than the books say, but minimal 
summer water.

Isabel- from Victoria BC where severe water restrictions are already in force.
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