@Bert Davies , I forgot to say, I'm a bird feeder, too. I just spent $131 buying bird seed for my birds. My feeder is a gallon jar and they empty it every two days. I have some pictures of my birds here somewhere. I think it's under "Pictures and Videos." Birds and blooms.
That's a lovely thing you do for the birds, Shirley, you put me to shame, I just give them my scraps which, they seem to enjoy.
Hi Don, I'm not into growing things on a big scale, I have only a smallish garden with a good variety of shrubs. The garden is relatively simple to maintain, which is just as well, because at 85, I'm past anything too difficult. Once a year I have a gardener who prunes everything to a manageable level which takes the donkey-work out of it for me.
Have any of you fine folks ever planted cherry stones, I did last october, no fancy messing about with clever techniques, I just bunged a few into 2 separate pots, pushed them into the soil, and today, I noticed that some of them have sprouted? I'm chuffed.
Go man!!! I have done it with peach pits. There are two varieties that will grow this far north, Contender and Reliance. I bought three little contenders at the farmer's market, put them in the fridge in a wet paper towel and a baggie harden them. And two of them sprouted after planting. One was quite hardy and I planted it out back. I watch it often for deer marauding. I hope it makes it through natural pruning. Sometimes deer get through the fencing.
Wow, you'll grow your own cherry tree, Bert. I have not done that, but I have grown an avocado tree from a seed. It got to about 6' tall and was killed by a winter frost one year when I transplanted it into the yard.
You will have a seedling tree onto which you can graft scion wood providing whatever cherries you want.