Monday, 1 September 2025

'The Giving Tree' - Mal's 2025/26 Photographic Project

Across the road from me lies a little park with a small playground. There lies a small "Prunus" tree* that the local council cropped heavily at the start of winter 2022. The park has a series of about 10 different trees of this type, varying in age and size. This particular one is just the one that's closest to me. 🌳

I will try to take a weekly/regular photo to show its seasonal progress this summer.

*The Cherry Plum (Prunus cerasifera) has been widely cultivated as a street tree in the temperate regions of Australia.

I love its deep maroon-coloured leaves. It hasn't fruited at all, perhaps as it is still too young?

I water it most summer days (twice or more at a time), hobbling across with my walking stick and trusty 9-litre/2.3 gal blue plastic watering can... "I'm the crazy old man who talks to the tree!" 🤣