SE corner seedling cherry trees prepared for May grafting

Over the last several months I have been working hard to prune out the invasives in the SE corner of the property. That area has been overgrown with blackberries, holly, wild clematis, and ivy for many years. The cherry trees overhead provided an excellent trellis for the wild vines and some grew 30 feet tall! Portland even considers these cherry trees to be invasive plants.

So it was quite an endeavor to remove the vines.

One big concern is that the 2 large trees in the corner were leaning over towards the Kailash building and emergency water cistern. We are at risk of a serious issue if either of these trees falls. For that reason, these two trees need to be either removed or pruned back so they no longer pose a hazard. At this point the plan is just to prune them back to remove the hazard.

Unfortunately, none of these trees has good fruit. The flesh portion of the cherry is about 1mm (1/8th inch) thick. Even the birds show little interest in eating the fruits. Occasionally we see evidence of racoon consumption of the fruits, but even that is rare.

So the plan is to prune all these trees and graft them with better varieties so we will be able to really enjoy the fruits. Doesn't this makes much more sense than trying to remove the trees?