Prunus ‘Kiku-shidare-zakura’ Tree Shape: Weeping
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A very popular small weeping tree with arching branches bearing densely clustered, double pink flowers in spring. Lanceshaped leaves are pale green and slightly bronzed at first. (19th Century)
Prunus ‘Kursar’
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Tree Shape: Standard A beautiful small tree of spreading habit. Masses of deep pink single flowers in early March, very popular with bees. The ovate leaves are coppery when young, followed by rich autumn Prunus serrula
colours of red and gold. (UK)
Prunus litigiosa
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Prunus ‘Little Pink Perfection’ 5
Tree Shape: Upright
Tree Shape: Bushy
(The Tassel Cherry) A most unusual upright tree producing
A bushy, very small tree producing deep pink-red buds in late
clusters of small white or pink tinged flowers in April. Flowers
spring, opening to double pink blooms hanging in large clusters.
have conspicuous protruding anthers, hence the reference to
Leaves turn a polished mid-green, before developing shades of
tassels. (China)
red and orange in the autumn. (Bristol, 1990s)
Prunus lusitanica
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Prunus ‘Mikurama-gaeshi’
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Tree Shape: Bushy
Tree Shape: Standard
A dense and spreading tree with oval, rich green leaves with
A small tree with long ascending, short spurred branches
reddish petioles. Small white hawthorn scented flowers are
densely packed with single blush pink flowers. Young leaves are
carried in long slender racemes. An ideal patio plant for shaping
bronze green, deep green in the summer, then reddish copper
and trimming. (Portugal)
with yellow markings in the autumn. (UK)
Prunus mume ‘Beni-chidori’
Prunus ‘Okame’
Tree Shape: Bushy
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Tree Shape: Bushy
(Japanese Apricot) A small tree producing deep pink, highly-
A round-headed small tree with ovate leaves turning orange
scented flowers in February fading to paler pink with age,
and red in autumn. Small, deep shell pink flowers in mid-
occasionally followed by edible but bitter, yellow fruits. Mid-
March, often followed by small dark cherries - not palatable for
green, glossy foliage boasts apricot-orange tints in autumn.
humans, but useful for birds. (UK, 1947)
Prunus padus ‘Le Thoureil’
Prunus ‘Pandora’
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Tree Shape: Standard
Tree Shape: Standard
(Bird Cherry) Vigorous, upright, small deciduous tree, with
A good, small, all season tree for any garden. Compact in habit
mid-green leaves turning yellow and bronze in autumn. White
with ascending branches clothed in pale, shell pink flowers in
flowers are borne in dense racemes in late spring, followed by
late March. Bronze-red leaves in the spring with tints of purple-
glossy, pea-like, black fruit. (1998)
red in the autumn. (UK, 1939)
Prunus pendula ‘Ascendens Rosea’
Prunus pendula ‘Pendula Rubra’
Tree Shape: Upright
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Tree Shape: Weeping
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A lovely slender, semi erect, vase shaped tree. Small, shell pink,
A small, deciduous tree with a weeping habit. Mid-green ovate
single flowers open in mid-spring from red buds, before the
foliage turns fiery shades of orange and red in the autumn
leaves emerge. A long lived ornamental Cherry.
before falling. The single flowers are a deep, rose pink emerging from darker pink buds.
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