Spring is here, as the avenues and parks up and down the country are cheer at the arrival of the flowering cherry. After a long and bleak winter, there is no better medicine than the sight of these inoffensive ornamental trees in your garden.
Good varieties of flowering cherry:
Prunus Kanzan
Prunus Kanzan Flowering Cherry
Prunus Kanzan flowering cherry is one of the showiest and best known varieties, with densely-double, purplish-pink flowers in late April.
The spring foliage is coppery-red turning green and then orange in autumn.
On delivery this tree will be approximately 4 feet tall, and sitting in a 12 litre tub.
A strong-growing tree, with an upright, spreading habit.
Pink Perfection (Dwarf)
Dwarf Japanese Cherry – Pink Perfection
The Japanese Flowering Cherry is linked to friendship and good-luck and plays an important part in the Japanese culture.
This Dwarf version of the Japanese Flowering Cherry is a beautiful little tree and ideal for patio containers and smaller gardens.
The Dwarf Japanese Flowering Cherry will brighten up the smallest of gardens or patios. It’s impressive display of pink candy floss like flowers appear in spring allowing the tree to live up to it’s name of Little Pink Perfection. The green leaves turn a yellow-orange colour later in the year which brightens up the garden in the autumn.
The Dwarf Japanese Flowering Cherry is a deciduous tree.
Prunus Kiku Shidare Zakura
Prunus Kiku-shidare-zakura
The graceful Japanese Flowering Cherry, or Cheals Weeping Cherry, marks Spring with an explosion of bright pink blossoms.
It is a symbol of love, affection and friendship.
The Japanese Cherry blossom is said represent good fortune and has long been linked to friendship. The world famous Japanese Flowering Cherry Trees, surrounding the Tidal Basin in Washington, were given to the US by the Japanese as a mark of new friendship. These trees have become an attraction, and each year Washington holds the National Cherry Blossom Festival to commemorate the gift and celebrate the friendship of two nations. The Japanese Cherry Blossom has links to Buddhism and features in many Japanese stories
The Japanese Weeping Cherry is a beautiful ornamental tree and looks especially stunning by water. The bright pink flowers take over the weeping branches in the late spring, followed by shiny green leaves in the summer. During autumn and winter the leaves turn a warm bronze colouring providing another stunning display. It is also often referred to as the Cheals Weeping Cherry .
The Japanese Flowering Cherry Tree is a deciduous tree.
Prunus avium - Wild Cherry
Prunus avium
The Wild Cherry gift will mark the beginning of spring with a mass of white flowers and rich autumn colours later in the year.
It is a well loved ornamental tree and makes a perfect gift.
The Wild Cherry is possibly our prettiest native tree and can be found in many parks and gardens throughout Britain. Sometimes referred to as the Gean or Mazzard, the Wild Cherry is one of the first trees in spring to flower and brings an explosion of pure white blossoms. The leaves appear after the flowers and are a green smooth looking leaf with a pointed tip. The berries are well loved by birds and the Wild Cherry will certainly bring plenty of wildlife to the garden.
Although a beautiful and ornate tree, the Wild Cherry is a tough cookie and is very hardy.
The Wild Cherry is a deciduous tree.
Amanagowa
Amanagowa Flowering Cherry
A floral celebration of the passing of winter, their magnificent semi-double and double candy pink blooms cascade from their branches like no other flower. Covering the lawn and borders like confetti with their delicate petals later in the season they really are a magical collection! Each a different variety and shape – lollipop, upright and weeping, they’re supplied as full mature 5′ tall specimens from renowned UK tree grower and nursery A E Roberts.
A vertical ‘rocket’ shape ideal for small gardens or hedging. Masses of scented, semi-double delicate pink flowers. Dark green leaves turn orange and red in the Autumn.
Iford flowering cherry
Iford flowering cherry
Creates a living ‘waterfall’ of soft, shell-pink blossoms that cascade down weeping branches all Spring long ! Now is the perfect time to plant one or more of these gorgeous exotic looking beauties.
A true love story, this wonderful tree was first discovered on an expedition to China by Harold Peto, one of the UK’s foremost plantsmen of the 20th Century. A romantic at heart, Peto planted the tree’s on the terrace of his famous home, Iford Manor in Wiltshire so the branches would shower the pathways below in a carpet of delicate pink flowers for the ladies of the house to stroll through…
After his death in the 1930′s, the house fell into disrepair and the tree was lost in the encroaching undergrowth. Re-discovered after the 2nd World War, the current owners lovingly restored the house and garden to its former glory but only during the 1990′s did they come across the ‘Iford’ Cherry again. Savaged by time, the one remaining living branch was saved by Will Sibley, a world renowned ‘Grafter’. With his tender care, this fascinating story has a very happy ending. Having managed to propagate six new trees from the original branch, a further 1700 are now ready to take their place in gardens across the UK to enchant and captivate once more.