We were driving home from visiting my mother in hospital this afternoon when we noticed this cherry tree with an amazing carpet of petals beneath it. We just had to stop and get some photos.
As you can see in the first picture, there is still a lot of blossom left on the tree, so it seems surprising that there can be so much on the ground, but the flowers are double, so there are a lot of petals per blossom!
wow! that is gorgeous!
we used to have a cherry tree in the house I grew up in. I do remember the petals, but I don’t remember then ever being quite like that!