I'm absolutely not a pro at this. Post your plants!
OP pic is Chinese rhubarb to maybe replace my old plant, russet potatoes that were sprouting on the counter, wild strawberries native to AB I often see in our river valley, asparagus (cut down once already), chives. Further back box is next week's problem.
Everything under the evergreens (out of frame directly behind the fence) suffers and this old planter the old owners put in is rotting, so last year for this struggling stuff except the Honeyberry bush which I need to move anyways. It's big enough to survive in the lawn now. Rhubarb, saskatoons, raspberries don't do well in here. I'll salvage what I can. Smashy'n clover next year. Then new half buried kiddie pools with the bottoms cut out "planters" elsewhere away from those trees is the plan. Classy! I'll do neon green with the dinosaur pattern.
New cherry tree because my old one is about at the end of its expected lifespan and it's showing. I'll pretty up its space if it survives the winter.
Same deal here, but these are an experiment to see if these "CANADIAN HARDY -TAYLOR" Paw Paw (Michigan Banana is another name) trees from Quebec's Green Barn Nursery can really survive zone 3b. They'll get the burlap sacks over winter. Has anyone eaten these fruits before on Lemmy? Curious. Nobody has heard of them locally here I've talked to so far. https://www.greenbarnnursery.ca/products/paw-paw-taylor
The row will hopefully be purple and orange goth-ish Sunflowers. Or "Chocolate" I guess.
The grass mostly died beside the pine tree, so I'm trying clover. It uh, yeah it's thriving. I'll dig out more of the damned grass later. Very good result it'll be lower maintenance now.
Does that typically last long when the tree is actively dying of old age? Or do the younger branches still have viable DNA? 🤔
I don't know much about grafting.
The tree also sent up a new trunk/shoot, if I left it and just cut down the old tree slowly as it dies, would the new trunk live another 35+ years off the oversized old root system or would it starve to death trying to maintain it?
As long as the tree isn't dying from diseases, yes, even older branches can be grafted successfully if you can get some healthy shoots. Grafting is quite accessible if you want to learn how to do it, so don't be afraid in case you want to give it a try
Is the new trunk at the base of the tree or grew on the roots near the tree? If it is, unless you are certain this was a seed grown cherry tree, it could end up being an entirely different type of cherry from the original graft
These are usually called suckers and they are the branches that come from the lowest part of a tree, below the graft, called rootstock. New sprouts that come up from the roots can make a new tree are called just that, a new tree, and you could actually use the new sprouts to graft another cherry tree to them that you prefer