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Two of the five choke cherry seedlings that I planted three years ago survived my inexperience of planting in Colorado clay soils, years of drought on Colorado eastern plains and multiple attacks by the "killer" rabbits that seem to browse chokecherries less than almost anything else we have growing around here. The trees are now more than four feet tall. Their bloom period is rather short (at most three weeks) and the flower smell is rather pungent, but not unpleasant. Blooming peaked late last week. Attached is a picture of raceme inflorescences (spikes similar to those on buckeyes) I took this past Sunday, before Memorial Day. The house is in the background.