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Choose from over 280 flowering cherries, crab apples, rowans and other ornamental trees.
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Birch trees
20
Fruiting ornamental trees
1
Native trees
1
Evergreen trees
1
Flowering cherry trees
6
Japanese flowering cherries
2
Cornus (Dogwood) trees
2
Ginkgo trees
1
Carpinus (Hornbeam) trees
1
Japanese maple trees
1
Liquidambar trees
5
Maple trees
6
Our recommendations
2
Available form
1-year
6
2-year
26
3-year
4
Top-worked
Multi-stem
1
Spindlebush
Available as
Bare-root
6
12L pot
26
7L pot
5
Growing
Awards
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RHS Award of Garden Merit
16
RHS Award of Merit
2
RHS 1st class
Gardening skill
Beginner
31
Average
8
Experienced
Attractive features
Attractive flowers
205
Attractive fruit
78
Attractive tree / plant
86
Attractive bark
45
Attractive foliage
72
Autumn foliage colour
157
Variegated foliage
23
Scented flowers
75
Scented foliage
3
Winter colour
8
Spring foliage colour
1
Summer foliage colour
17
Growth habit
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Columnar / Fastigiate
4
Upright
15
Upright-spreading
17
Spreading
4
Weeping
1
Multi-stem
Height after 10 years
Up to 1.5m / 5ft
1.5m-2.5m / 5ft-8ft
2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
12
3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
30
5m-8m / 16ft-25ft
3
Flower colour
White
9
Cream
Pink - light
2
Pink
Pink - dark
Red - dark
Crimson
Magenta
Purple
Mauve
Yellow
Flowering season
Early
Mid-season
8
Late
Flowering month
January
February
3
March
April
10
May
2
June
2
July
August
September
November
1
December
Flower form
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Single flower (5-8 petals)
7
Semi-double flower (10-20 petals)
1
Double flower (25-50 petals)
Chrysanthemum flower (100+ petals)
Leaf colour - autumn
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Green
2
Yellow
18
Yellow / Crimson
Orange / Gold
4
Orange / Red
8
Bronze / Purple
1
Multiple tints
3
Leaf colour - summer
Green
38
Bronze
1
Dark purple
Grey-green
Bluish-green
Yellow
Yellow-green
2
Pink-white-green variegated
1
White-green variegated
Leaf/Flower sequence
Leaves appear first
2
Flowers appear first
Leaves and Flowers appear together
Fruit colour
Black
Blue - dark
Bronze
Brown
Crimson
Gold
Green
Green / Red
Green / Yellow
Orange
Orange / Red
Pink
2
Purple
Red
Red - dark
1
Red / Black
Russet
Yellow
Yellow / Orange
Yellow / Red
White
Sunlight
Prefers full sun
29
Some shade
10
Tolerates shade
3
Pruning
Do not prune
30
No need to prune
Light prune
10
Prune after flowering
Prune hard
1
Growth rate
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Fast
13
Average
17
Slow
7
Site conditions
Sheltered site
6
Windy site
Free-draining site
12
Occasional flooding
19
Occasional drought
21
Coastal site
2
Air pollution
Identification
Fruit size
Very small
1
Small
Average
1
Large
Very large
Bark
White
14
Grey
3
Brown - light
4
Brown - chocolate
2
Brown / Red
2
Copper / Purple
1
Striated - brown
4
Striated - red
2
Peeling
3
Country of origin
Australia
Belgium
Canada
China
8
Denmark
France
Germany
1
Ireland
Italy
Japan
3
Netherlands
3
New Zealand
Russia
Portugal
Spain
South Korea
Sweden
1
Turkey
United Kingdom
7
United States
3
Annual cycle
Deciduous
43
Evergreen
1
Using
Wildlife
Attractive to birds
3
RHS perfect for pollinators
1
Food uses
Jam / Jelly
Fruit persistence
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Normal ripening
Fruit drops when ripe
2
Ripens over a period
Persistent
Varieties list
Flowering cherry tree
Amber Beauty
Amber Beauty is a form of the Manchurian Cherry, notable for dense clusters of white blossom.
Flower colour: White
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Growth habit: Upright-spreading
Flowering season: Mid-season
Prunus maackii
Fruiting ornamental
Arbutus unedo
A small evergreen ornamental tree which produces edible fruitlets - commonly known as the Strawberry Tree.
£39.95
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Arbutus unedo
Maple
Autumn Blaze
Spectacular, bright orange red leaves.A hybrid of Acer rubrum /saccharnum.Height after 10yr 6m/20ft
£34.95 - £44.95
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Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
Acer x Freemanii
Birch
Betula utilis jacquemontii
The Himalayan White Birch, one of the most popular white birches with characteristic bright white bark.
£18.95 - £56.95
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Height after 10 years: 5m-8m / 16ft-25ft
Growth habit: Upright-spreading
Bark: White
Betula utilis jacquemontii
Flowering cherry tree
Branklyn
One of the best forms of Prunus serrula, grown for its beautiful peeling brown bark.
£49.95
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Flower colour: White
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Growth habit: Upright-spreading
Flowering season: Mid-season
Prunus serrula
Birch
China Ruby
A slow-growing form of the Chinese red birch, featuring peeling copper-coloured bark and long catkins.
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Growth habit: Upright-spreading
Bark: Striated - brown
Betula albosinensis
Flowering dogwood
Cornus kousa chinensis
This is the Chinese Dogwood, and features a mass of large white blossom, followed by attractive autumn leaf colours.
£34.95
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Cornus kousa chinensis
Birch
Dalecarlica
The Swedish birch, an attractive columnar silver birch with drooping branches.
£49.95
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Growth habit: Upright
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Bark: White
Betula pendula
Birch
Darkness
This birch features speckled dark bark and an upright habit.
£49.95
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Growth habit: Upright
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Bark: Striated - brown
Betula utilis
Birch
Edinburgh
Edinburgh is an upright form of the silver birch, discovered in the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens.
£49.95
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Growth habit: Upright
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Bark: White
Betula utilis x Betula albosinensis
Birch
Fascination
Fascination features coppery-orange papery bark and very long catkins.
£49.95
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Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Growth habit: Upright-spreading
Bark: Brown - light
Betula albosinensis
Birch
Fastigiata Joes
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A unique silver birch with a compact upright columnar form and pendulous branches.
£49.95
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Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Growth habit: Columnar / Fastigiate
Bark: White
Betula pendula
Birch
Fetisowii
A slow-growing small birch with bright white papery peeling bark.
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Growth habit: Upright-spreading
Bark: White
Betula
Maple
George Forrest
A popular snake-bark maple, very attractive striated bark, and golden yellow autumn colours.
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Multiple tints
Leaf colour - autumn: Yellow
Acer davidii
Ginkgo
Ginkgo biloba
Also known as the Maidenhair tree, upright habit, attractive leaves and good autumn colour.
£39.95 - £49.95
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Growth habit: Upright
Height after 10 years: 5m-8m / 16ft-25ft
Ginkgo biloba
Birch
Golden Beauty
A gold-leaved silver birch, with an excellent upright form, white bark, and attractive autumn leaf colours.
Growth habit: Upright
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Bark: White
Betula pendula
Birch
Golden Fountain
A nice example of the Golden Birch, with green-yellow leaves in the summer, turning golden yellow in the autumn.
Growth habit: Upright
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Bark: White
Betula
Birch
Hergest
Hergest is a form of the Chinese red birch, and features copper-coloured bark.
£49.95
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Growth habit: Upright
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Bark: Brown - light
Betula albosinensis
Birch
Jermyns
Jermyns is a variety of the Himalayan birch, notable for its bright white bark and large catkins.
£49.95
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Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Betula utilis jacquemontii
Liquidambar
Liquidambar styraciflua
An attractive sweet gum tree with excellent autumnal foliage colours.
£39.95 - £49.95
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Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Liquidambar styraciflua
Liquidambar
Palo Alto
This form of Liquidambar features long narrow lobed leaves and strong long-lived autumnal foliage colours.
£44.95 - £49.95
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Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Liquidambar styraciflua
Maple
Paper-bark maple
A medium-sized maple tree featuring characteristic peeling bark, and strong autumn colours.
£34.95
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Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Multiple tints
Acer griseum
Maple
Phoenix
One of the best Maples for winter colour, featuring striated bright red bark.
Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Yellow
Acer x conspicuum
Flowering cherry tree
Prunus himilaica
A flowering cherry, but grown primarily for the stunning copper striped bark.
Flower colour: White
Growth habit: Columnar / Fastigiate
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Flowering season: Mid-season
Prunus himilaica
Flowering cherry tree
Prunus rufa
This is the Himalayan cherry, notable for its attractive exfoliating bark, and hairy young shoots.
£25.95 - £49.95
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Growth habit: Upright
Flower colour: Pink - light
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Flowering season: Mid-season
Prunus rufa
Flowering cherry tree
Prunus serrula
A popular flowering cherry tree species, The Tibetan cherry or Birch Bark cherry is well-known for its attractive bark.
£25.95 - £55.95
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Flower colour: White
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Growth habit: Upright-spreading
Flowering season: Mid-season
Prunus serrula
Maple
Red Flamingo
A small snake-bark maple featuring brilliant red stems and variegated pink, white, and green leaves.
£44.95
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Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Yellow
Acer x conspicuum
Maple
Red Snakebark Maple
One of the smaller maples, its main feature is the striated brown/red bark.
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
Acer capillipes
Hornbeam
Rockhampton Red
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An excellent form of the common Hornbeam, notable for its fiery orange-red autumn foliage.
£44.95
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Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
Carpinus betulus
Birch
Royal Frost
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An unusual silver birch with bronze-coloured leaves, and a white stem.
£49.95
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Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Growth habit: Upright-spreading
Bark: White
Betula x populifolia
Japanese maple trees
Sango Kaku
Also known as the Coral Bark maple, Sango Kaku features coral red stems which make a strong winter feature.
Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Gold
Acer palmatum
Flowering cherry tree
Schmittii
A flowering cherry which is useful for public spaces on account of its conical form and attractive bark.
Flower colour: Pink - light
Growth habit: Columnar / Fastigiate
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Flowering season: Mid-season
Prunus avium x Prunus canascens
Japanese flowering cherry tree
Shirotae
Prunus Shirotae features large single or semi-double fragrant white flowers, and is perhaps the most beautiful of the white-flowered Japanese cherries.
£25.95 - £49.95
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Growth habit: Spreading
Flower colour: White
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Flowering month: April
Flower form: Semi-double flower (10-20 petals)
Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Gold
Prunus serrulata
Birch
Silver Birch
The Common Silver Birch, native to Europe, popular for its peeling white bark and pendulous branches.
£18.95 - £49.95
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Height after 10 years: 5m-8m / 16ft-25ft
Growth habit: Upright-spreading
Bark: White
Betula alba pendula
Birch
Silver Shadow
Silver Shadow is one of the loveliest of the Himalayan birches, notable for its presence and pure white stem.
£49.95
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Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Growth habit: Upright-spreading
Bark: White
Betula utilis jacquemontii
Liquidambar
Slender Silhouette
Slender Silhouette is a particularly columnar form of Liquidambar, with vibrant yellow and red autumn foliage colours.
£39.95 - £49.95
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Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Liquidambar styraciflua
Birch
Snow Queen
An attractive tree, and one of the best forms of the Himalayan birch, with a bright white stem.
£18.95 - £56.95
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Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Growth habit: Upright-spreading
Bark: White
Betula utilis
Liquidambar
Stared
Stared features small dainty 7-lobed leaves which are deeply incised and offer strong autumn colours.
£39.95 - £49.95
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Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
Liquidambar styraciflua
Japanese flowering cherry tree
Tai-haku
A traditional Japanese flowering cherry, known as the "Great White Cherry" and notable for its very large single white flowers.
£25.95 - £49.95
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Growth habit: Spreading
Flower colour: White
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Flowering month: April
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Gold
Prunus serrulata
Birch
Trinity College
A small attractive birch tree with bright white bark from a young age.
£49.95
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Growth habit: Upright
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Bark: White
Betula utilis jacquemontii
Birch
Tristis
A graceful upright silver birch with pendulous shoots cascading from its branches.
£49.95
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Growth habit: Upright
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Bark: White
Betula pendula
Birch
Wakehurst Place Chocolate
This lovely Himalayan Birch is named for its chocolate-coloured peeling striated bark.
£49.95
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Growth habit: Upright
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Bark: Striated - brown
Betula utilis
Flowering dogwood
White Fountain
This flowering dogwood is characterised by its large white bracts, and attractive red autumn leaf colours.
£44.95
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Cornus kousa
Liquidambar
Worplesdon
An elegant upright conical tree with excellent orange and gold autumn leaf colours.
£39.95 - £49.95
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Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Liquidambar styraciflua
Birch
Youngii
A weeping silver birch, the branches trail to the ground.
£49.95
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Growth habit: Weeping
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Bark: White
Betula pendula
Choose from over 280 flowering cherries, crab apples, rowans and other ornamental trees.