Topic: a day of revelation

[sarah]

wasnt sure where to put this but had to tell...

i have lived in this house for ten years and my husband has lived in this house for fifteen years. his grandparents lived here for fifty years.  there is a big cherry tree in the garden and every year i wait for the cherries to ripen and every year the birds get there first and  i curse them and they always get the cherries before me!!! .......or so i thought.
today i was told by a visiting family member ...that they are white cherries and they are now ripe. and the tree is heaving with them.  :P ??? ::) :o

all these years i have been cursing those darned birds for getting the fruit before it ripens up and it was ripe all along.  arggghhhh. 

o well you live and learn. i have eaten half a tonne of them today and they are the yummiest sweetest cherries ever.  just had to share that all with you. you can carry on watching the footy now. ;)

[katynewbie]

 8)

Your cherries are far more interesting! I would duck, but all those watching footie will be too involved to throw anything! I didn't know that white cherries existed!

 ;)

[saddad]

presumably like you the birds waited and waited before one twigged and then they scoffed the lot!
 ;D

[MrsKP]

lol ........ all those wasted years.  bet your birds are well miffed that their previously unraided supply will be limited from now on.

I quite fancy growing a cherry tree.  will have to look into it in more detail.

 ;D

[supersprout]

I didn't know that white cherries existed!

LOL me neither - you're not alone sarah! And what a bonus that they're good to eat! ;D

[David R]

:o where can I get one? (a white cherry tree that is!)

[Hyacinth]

White cherries are supreme! The King of cherries!!

Laughing so much that you'd not realized til now  ;D ;D ;D

[sarah]

yeah yeah i know :D i'd be laughing too if my face wasnt stuffed with cherries ;D

[sarah]

:o where can I get one? (a white cherry tree that is!)

i've no idea david.r - i could spit some pits your way if you like (dont know how you propogate cherries). the tree is about thirty feet high though. mind you it is pretty old.

[supersprout]

Found this
http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Schizomeria+ovata
but the cherry doesn't look white white ???

[Hyacinth]

on that link they don't look like anything to me, SS ;)

They're a light cream white but spect that up in an old high tree with leaves'n'that around they'd look like....well, like cherry-coloured cherries before they turned red?

teehee

[Mrs Ava]

Mine are pale yellow when ripe, with just a slightest hint of pinkness.  I scoffed ours today!  You can leave them longer and they will pink up more, but then you have no chance against the birds.  Yum!

[sarah]

yes thats just what they are like. they do go quite pinky if you leave them, but at the point of perfection they are a sort of blush.  maddeningly there are oodles and oodles up the top of the tree and theres no way i can get up there. never mind plenty at step ladder level for me.

[spacehopper]

He he, thats a classic!  :D