Settle Wildflowers - Day 58 - Red 12 - Pink - Prunus cerasifera - Cherry Plum - but which?

This photo is from in Giggleswick Churchyard on 23 April. 

I should have posted this on Day 15 (29 April) instead of now in late July as Day 58

 

I hope to go and look at the tree again this coming week , in the remote hope it may have fruit.

25 April - at the start of a walk up the B6480 up towards Bucker Brow - so quiet during Lockdown. Cherry Plum in the foreground

My friend Doris Cairns is writing a book about the wild life in Giggleswick churchyard, illustrated by her paintings. It has a map of the trees in the churchyard. This copper coloured Prunus species (Prunus cerasifera - Pissardii - Nigra - presents a problem as we are not sure what English name to give it.


Can any Settle Gardeners out there tell us? We are referring to this copper coloured variety, not just ordinary Cherry Plum.


It is not one of Britain's native species. It is native to Southeast Europe and Western Asia, and is naturalised in the British Isles.
Stace (the UK botanisits' main Wildflower book) and the BSBI website both now include a lot of non-native species - If botanists can recognise them they can record them and we will be able to see which "Garden Escapes" are becoming naturalised.

There is a display reminding people of Doris's forthcoming book in Gigglewick Church put up by Margaret Fox on Friday.  (Next to it is a display of the Pebbles painted by children in Settle and placed around Settle over the past few months). I have added a few pictures from this blog to the bottom of the display - including the question - "What do we call this cherry?"

Black Cherry Plum? Purple Cherry Plum? Pissard's Cherry Plum?

Click here for  more flowers coming out 

around Langcliffe and Settle