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Pretty sure its a cherry plum (Prunus cerasifera) as suggested above.

Got one in my front garden at exactly same stage of flowering.

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Could be a Mirabelle- Prunus domestica subsp. syriaca.

 

The one in my back garden is also at exactly that stage. Do any people involved know what the fruit colour is?

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In answer to your other question, you can get away with building very close to such trees - but you'll need to see the building regs table vs. soil type to work out how deep the foundations have to go. For example, in a medium clay it would be 1.65m, although this could step up to 1.5m when you're 2m away, and so on.

 

Personally, I'd look at making sure the tree was reasonably balanced, and plums can take some reduction - if it's going to be done then now is about the ideal time of year. The root system will cope, so long as the area which is about to be built on isn't the only area that currently lets water reach it - so if it's currently lawn but the other sides are all paved for example.

 

I've just stuck footings 50cm from a pear on clay with no issue so far as the building inspector is concerned - just made sure I complied and got them inspected properly, and pears require slightly deeper footings than plums according to the regs (which can't cope with the fact that in reality it's grafted onto a much weaker quince rootstock!).

 

Alec

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Still no definate verdict on the Species, I was curious to find out, what flowers that early in the prunus family that looks like that, (i.e autumnalis is very different) thats why I through Pyrus foward although Its not any Pyrus Ive seen.

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