carlianne

Hi all, I am new to this message board and I must say how nice it is to have a message board where hopefully I can get some advice.
I live in UK south east and have a small garden with a solitary tree in it. I think that is a cherry blossom, in the autumn and spring, it normally blossoms with beautiful pink blossom. This year, I noticed that although it blossomed this spring, it started to produce its leaves quite late. However in the last month, it has started to drop its leaves now and looks very autumnal..
What I would like to know is ...is it normal for a tree to have an "off year?"
We have lived in this house for 5 years and this is the first year that I have noticed this happening. The only thing that we ahve done to the garden is returfed it but we did that last spring and we have established grass now and the tree did not seem to suffer last year.

Any thoughts would be great, I know I have provided limited information but I dont know anything about trees at all..not even in the slightest!!

Thanks for any help offered.

carly