Weeping Silver Pear Tree

Good gardeners know that weeping Silver Pear trees are super-stylish and very ornamental. They should be planted in highly visible garden spots, in order to impress.

I bought a weeping Silver Pear (it cost me heaps) when I was still under the influence of the English shrubs-and-perennials gardenscape. Alas - for some unknown reason, in a moment of style rebellion, I planted mine out of sight in the Hazelnut Orchard. It's all alone, at the beginning of a row of raspberry canes, far too easily forgotten. One spring I even missed the blossom altogether!

Non-Gardening Partner has nobly resisted my efforts to get the tree transplanted. Now I fear it's just too old and set in its ways, growing in the rough grass of the orchard paddock.

Unfashionable?

I could try a reverse psychology next time a visitor wanders around the garden - 'Oh, that dreary old silver pear thing - rather unfashionable, so last decade, don't you think?' Hmm...