Weeping cherry trees

by Diane
(Exton, PA)

I didn't know where else to ask this question. I am just curious, why are cherry trees grafted onto other trees?

Doug says - the top weeps and hangs down but the stem/trunk isn't the same plant in order to get the weeping part off the ground. So you graft a weeping top to a trunk of a certain height, then you graft that trunk to a rootstock that will keep both alive.

Another way of putting this is that if you didn't graft that trunk on there, the weeping part of the tree would be a ground cover rather than above the ground.

Hope that helps.