(Ornamental Peach, White Icicle Peach)

Flowering peaches are valued for their showy flowers rather than their fruit, which is small and insignificant. They are descended from the wild peach, a small deciduous tree from China that has been cultivated since ancient times. The cultivar ‘White Icicle’ features double flowers of clean, refreshing white that cover its branches thickly in mid spring. It blooms later than many others, making its snowy blossoms less susceptible to frost damage. After flowering, this small tree clothes itself...

(Sargent's Cherry)

With many ornamental qualities, Sargent cherry has pale pink springtime flowers, yellow and orange-red fall foliage, glossy reddish brown bark and small glossy red fruits! A deciduous tree with an upright, spreading canopy, it is native to the Sakhalin Peninsula of eastern Russia, Korea and Japan. The smooth, glossy bark is a reddish sienna-brown with horizontal rows of lenticels (small pores).

In spring the newly emerging leaves are glossy dark red. Meanwhile clusters of pale pink flowers with...

(Column Sargent's Cherry, Sargent's Cherry)

With many ornamental qualities, Sargent cherry selection 'Columnaris' has pale pink springtime flowers, yellow and orange-red fall foliage, glossy reddish brown bark and small glossy red fruits! A deciduous tree with an upright, narrow shape, it is native to the Sakhalin Peninsula of eastern Russia, Korea and Japan. The smooth, glossy bark is a reddish sienna-brown with horizontal rows of lenticels (small pores).

In spring the newly emerging leaves are glossy dark red. Meanwhile clusters of pale...

(Rancho Flowering Cherry, Sargent's Cherry)

With many ornamental qualities, Rancho Sargent cherry has pale pink springtime flowers, yellow and orange-red fall foliage, glossy reddish brown bark and small glossy red fruits! A deciduous tree with an upright, narrow shape, it is native to the Sakhalin Peninsula of eastern Russia, Korea and Japan. The smooth, glossy bark is a reddish sienna-brown with horizontal rows of lenticels (small pores).

In spring the newly emerging leaves are glossy dark red. Meanwhile clusters of pale pink flowers...

(Black Cherry)

The largest of the cherries, this fast-growing, medium to large deciduous tree is valued not only for its ornamental attributes but also as a timber tree. It is native from central and eastern North America to Guatemala.

The tapered, oval, saw-edged leaves are glossy dark green above and paler underneath. New leaves are often bronze-tinged, and fall color is typically bright yellow. In mid to late spring, upright to horizontal, cylindrical clusters of white five-petaled flowers adorn the branches,...

(Oriental Cherry)

The Japanese flowering cherry embodies the romanticism of the ornamental cherry tree that decorates the spring landscape. A short-lived, large deciduous tree that unfortunately is plagued by many viral diseases, it is native to Japan, Korea and China. Much smaller cultivars of this species are usually found growing in gardens all across the temperate world. This tree becomes V-shaped to rounded in its mature habit.

The shiny gray-brown bark reflects light, attaining even a mauve coloring in between...

(Kwanzan Cherry)

One of the showiest of the Japanese flowering cherry trees, 'Kwanzan' blooms prolifically in early spring with clusters of deep pink double flowers on almost-bare branches. It is a vase-shaped small tree, as broad as tall, with thin, graceful, ascending branches. The leaves are green and toothy but when young may be tinted with red. Its high canopy allows for gardening with shade plants under the tree.

For best flowering give the tree rich, moist, well-drained soil and full sun to partial sun....

(Oriental Cherry, Royal Burgundy Oriental Cherry)

One of the prettiest of the Japanese flowering cherry trees, 'Royal Burgundy' blooms prolifically in early spring with clusters of deep pink flowers that rivals that of the popular 'Kwanzan', but has reddish purple foliage. It is a vase-shaped small tree, as broad as tall, with thin, graceful, ascending branches. The leaves are deep red-purple and toothy but can have undertones of dull green. Its high canopy allows for gardening with shade plants under the tree. In autumn the dark foliage attains...

(Apricot Plum)

An ornamental fruit tree with white springtime flowers followed by small red edible fruits in midsummer, the apricot plum (or Chinese apricot) is very popular in eastern Asia where its many cultivated varieties provide many flavors of fruit. A small deciduous tree native to the Hubei Province of China, and widely cultivated across northern China, it has young twigs and branches of purple and salmon-red.

The leaves are broad but plump lance-shaped with nearly parallel veining. Colored medium green,...

(Higan Cherry)

Higan cherry is a medium-sized deciduous flowering cherry that originates from Japan. This graceful tree develops a wide, spreading growth habit and produces loads of pendulous pale-pink blooms in spring. Small shiny black cherries sometimes follow the flowers, and in fall its glossy green, ovate leaves turn shades of gold, orange and yellow. The smooth, chocolate brown bark offers visual appeal to the winter landscape. In addition to ornamental appeal, this is a tough little tree, tolerating cold...