Garden Supplies & Gifts - Flowering Cherry

Yoshino Flowering Cherry

The Yoshino Cherry tree Prunus X Yedoensis has white or pink clusters of beautiful flowers that have a scent of almond. The flowers appear before the leaves. These ornamental cherries are bred for flowers and fragrance instead of fruit. It is excellent as a border or mass plantings in an open area or as specimen tree. They are exceptionally showy with evergreens in background. It is the main cherry tree in the Washington tidal basin common on US Capitol grounds and around the Library of Congress....

Weeping Cherry

The Weeping Cherry tree Prunus subhirtelia 'Pendula' has a medium growth rate for its arching vertical growth but a rapid growth rate for its many weeping stems. If desired stems that weep to the ground can be pruned up to a desired height (either staggered in height for informality or clipped to precisely the same height for formality) so that mowing growth of other ornamentals or maintenance access can be achieved underneath the tree....

Okame Cherry

The Okame Cherry tree Prunus Okame is one of the earliest of the flowering cherries. Its carmine-pink petals with rose-red calyx and reddish flower stalks open fully before leaf break. It has a very consistent year-to-year blooming habit. At maturity `Okame' Cherry trees will attain 20-30' in height with a similar spread. The young trees display a broad-columnar habit; older trees develop a more rounded habit.It makes a fine specimen tree and should be sited where it can be easily seen in late winter/early spring....

Kwanzan Flowering Cherry

The Kwanzan Flowering Cherry tree Prunus serrulata Kwanzan is one of the most popular cultivars of the flowering cherry trees. This deciduous tree rapidly grows to height of 20 to 30 feet. The blooms are a clear pink double flower (multiple petals like a carnation). The blooms tend to last 3 weeks yielding to a light green foliage with a red tinge.The Kwanzan flowering cherry tree is also known as a Japanese flowering cherry tree. A beautiful ornamental flowering tree....