Ornamental Cherries are one of the popular flowering trees for the small garden. They come in a lot variety of shapes and sizes, and include several quite small trees. They are easy to grow, hardy, disease resistant, generally pest free and need just a little pruning. Some also attract butterflies to the garden, providing food for the caterpillars or nectar for the adult butterflies.
These are the most popular varieties of Ornamental Cherries:
Prunus Kanzan
Big bold double pink flowers in late April. The foliage is a lovely copper tint when young. Unpruned height up to 8 metres and spread to 6 metres.
Prunus Shirotae
Single or semi-double white flowers in late April, and coppery young foliage. Size as for Kanzan.
Prunus Sargentii
Big clusters of clear pink flower in late March. Notable for its bright autumn leaf colour, the bronze red young leaves turning orange and crimson in early autumn. Size as for Kanzan.
Prunus Serrula
Fairly unspectacular white flowers in April. Grow this instead for its splendid, shining, bright red-brown peeling bark. Size as for Kanzan.
Prunus Amanagowa
Abundant soft pink flowers in April and May. This is a particularly good tree for a small space, with a columnar shape like a small Lombardy Poplar or Cypress, up to 8 metres tall but no more than 2 – 2 ½ metres in spread.
Prunus Kiku shidare or Cheal’s Weeping Cherry
Deep pink double flowers crowd the arching, trailing branches in March and April. Rarely more than 4 meters high, most specimens can be kept much smaller by pruning if space is restricted.
Prunus Virginiana Schubert
Pendulous spikes of white flower in spring, with glossy red mature leaves. Height 3 metres spread 2 ½ metres.
Prunus Ukon
Abundant semi-double white flowers and attractive red and purple autumn leaves. Height 6 metres spread 3 metres.
Prunus x cistena
Actually a flowering plum, but included here because its deep pink cherry-like flowers and bronze leaves are so lovely, and also because it’s so small at 1 ½ metres height and spread that you can easily grow it in a pot on a patio. It also makes a beautiful hedging plant.
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