Beauty Plum Tree in Bloom February 24, 2013

This is a Beauty Plum tree.  Pretty flowers!  The flowers have a faintly sweet smell.  The bees were very busy around this tree.  The other plum tree is blooming, but not nearly so prettily as this one.  A few years ago some critter broke off almost all the branches trying to get to the plums - raccoons?  deer?  Not sure.  But whatever it was, they really did a number on the tree.  There is only one branch left on that poor plum tree.  I suppose I should dig it up, pull it out, and start over with a new one.  I don't have the heart.