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Accolade
An impressive spreading ornamental cherry tree, with light pink double-flowers.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
Flower colour: Pink - light
Flower form: Semi-double flower (10-20 petals)
Awards: RHS AM
Prunus sargentii x subhirtella
Acer palmatum Dissectum
A good example of the "dissectum" form of Acer palmatum, featuring deeply cut leaves.
Height after 10 years: Up to 1.5m / 5ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
Acer palmatum var. dissectum
Acer platanoides
The Norway Maple is large fast-growing tree with attractive 5-lobed leaves that turn yellow in autumn.
Height after 10 years: 5m-8m / 16ft-25ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Multiple tints
Leaf colour - autumn: Yellow
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Acer platanoides
Acer rubrum
The well-known Canadian maple, fast growing and featuring beautiful autumn leaf colours.
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
Acer rubrum
Admiration
Malus Admiration is one of the best crab-apples for small gardens, with clouds of white blossom followed by persistent fruitlets.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Red
Flower colour: Pink - light
Leaf colour: Green
Malus halliana
Alley Cat
Alley Cat is a Redbud featuring dark pink flowers and colourful pink / green / white leaves.
Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
Flower colour: Pink - dark
Leaf colour: Green
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Leaf colour: Pink-white-green variegated
Cercis canadensis
Amanogawa
A popular columnar flowering cherry, also known as the Flagpole Cherry.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flower colour: Pink - light
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Flowering month: May
Growth habit: Columnar / Fastigiate
Flower form: Semi-double flower (10-20 petals)
Awards: RHS AM
Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
Prunus
Amber Light
A typical Mountain Ash or Rowan, with particularly persistent red berries.
Fruit colour: Orange
Sorbus
Amelanchier lamarckii
This small shrub-like tree has perhaps the strongest autumn display of any Amelanchier.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flower colour: White
Flowering month: April
Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
Amelanchier lamarckii
Aphrodite
Aphrodite is a vigorous Magnolia with intense magenta flowers which bloom over a long period.
Flower colour: Crimson
Flowering month: May
Flower colour: Magenta
Magnolia
Aros
®
A small slow-growing upright crab-apple, with bronze-green leaves, beautiful dark pink flowers with white centres, and maroon fruits in the autumn.
Fruit colour: Red - dark
Flower colour: Pink - dark
Leaf colour: Bronze
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Malus toringo
Asano
Prunus Asano is a compact Japanese flowering cherry, notable for its intense deep pink blossom, featuring up to 100 petals per flower.
Growth habit: Upright
Flower colour: Pink - dark
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Flowering month: April
Flowering month: May
Flower form: Chrysanthemum flower (100+ petals)
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Prunus
Ascendens Rosea
This beautiful flowering cherry has a graceful upright habit and white/pink blossom.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Growth habit: Upright
Flower colour: Pink - light
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Prunus pendula
Asplenifolia
The Cut-leaf Rowan, an excellent form of the native Mountain Ash, orange-red berries, and highly feathered leaves.
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Sorbus aucuparia
Aureum
As the name suggests, this is a form of the Cappodician Maple featuring golden-green leaves which take on multiple tints in the autumn.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Multiple tints
Acer cappadocicum
Autumn Blaze
Spectacular, bright orange red leaves.A hybrid of Acer rubrum /saccharnum.Height after 10yr 6m/20ft
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
Acer x Freemanii
Autumn Spire
®
Autumn Spire (Flanrock) is a columnar rowan with yellow fruitlets and excellent autumn colour.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Yellow
Sorbus aucuparia
Autumnalis
A Japanese flowering cherry with white blossom. Flowering may begin around Christmas and continue to spring in some seasons.
Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
Flower colour: White
Flower form: Semi-double flower (10-20 petals)
Awards: RHS AM
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Prunus x subhirtella
Autumnalis Rosea
A Japanese flowering cherry with light pink blossom, can sometimes flower through the whole winter.
Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
Flower colour: Pink - light
Flower form: Semi-double flower (10-20 petals)
Awards: RHS AM
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Prunus x subhirtella
Avondale
A compact Chinese Redbud, featuring an intense display of purple blossom, followed by large green leaves. Ideal for small spaces.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
Leaf colour: Green
Height after 10 years: 1.5m-2.5m / 5ft-8ft
Flower colour: Purple
Cercis chinensis
Ballerina
A popular tree-like Amelanchier with white blossom and good autumn leaf colours.
Flower colour: White
Flowering month: April
Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Amelanchier x grandiflora
Beissneri
Beissneri is a compact form of the Common Rowan, with red berries and good autumn colours.
Fruit colour: Red
Sorbus aucuparia
Belmonte
An improved form of the traditional Japanese crab-apple species, with white blossom and superb autumn leaf colours.
Fruit colour: Green / Red
Flower colour: White
Leaf colour: Green
Malus tschonoskii
Beni-yutaka
Beni-yutaka is a pink blossom tree, which also features attractive red autumnal leaves.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Growth habit: Upright
Flower colour: Pink - dark
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Flowering month: April
Flower form: Semi-double flower (10-20 petals)
Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
Prunus
Betula utilis jacquemontii
The Himalayan White Birch, one of the most popular white birches with characteristic bright white bark.
Height after 10 years: 5m-8m / 16ft-25ft
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Bark: White
Betula utilis jacquemontii
Big Dude
As the name suggests, this Magnolia features huge flowers, with many shades of pink.
Flower colour: Pink - light
Flowering month: April
Magnolia
Big Golden Star
An attractive hawthorn, with large red fruits, and usually thornless.
Fruit colour: Red
Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
Flowering month: May
Crataegus pinnatifida
Black Swan
An excellent purple beech with an attractive cascading habit,
Fagus sylvatica
Black Tulip
®
Black Tulip has deep ruby red flowers, the darkest of any Magnolia variety.
Flower colour: Crimson
Flowering month: April
Flower colour: Magenta
Magnolia
Blagon
A slow-growing attractive columnar Ginkgo with yellow autumnal leaves
Growth habit: Upright
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Ginkgo biloba
Brandywine
Brandywine is one of the best red maples for the UK climate, with a reliable display of fiery-red autumn colours.
Height after 10 years: 5m-8m / 16ft-25ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Multiple tints
Acer rubrum
Butterball
Malus Butterball is named for its bright yellow fruits, which are also good for crab apple jelly.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Yellow
Flower colour: White
Leaf colour: Green
Malus
Candy Floss
A Japanese flowering cherry, notable for its large pink double flowers.
Flower colour: Pink
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Flowering month: May
Flower form: Double flower (25-50 petals)
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Prunus
Candymint
A pretty and graceful spreading tree with a mass of pink / white flowers, and small red fruits.
Fruit colour: Red - dark
Flower colour: Pink - light
Leaf colour: Green
Malus sargentii
Cardinal
Also known as Princeton Cardinal, a bronze-leaved crab-apple with pink-red spring blossom and red fruitlets in the autumn.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Red - dark
Flower colour: Pink - dark
Leaf colour: Bronze
Malus hupehensis
Carolina Sweetheart
TM
One of the most colourful of the Redbuds, Carolina Sweetheart features a mass of variegated white / pink / green heart-shaped leaves.
Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
Flower colour: Pink - dark
Leaf colour: Green
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Leaf colour: Pink-white-green variegated
Cercis canadensis
Carpinus betulus
The Common Hornbeam makes an excellent small tree, with attractive autumn leaf colours. It is also suitable for training and pleaching.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Yellow
Carpinus betulus
Catherine
An unusual winter-flowering cherry, which also has superb autumn leaf colours.
Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
Flower colour: White
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Prunus
Chanticleer
Chanticleer is a form of the Callery Pear, with attractive spring blossom and autumn colours.
Flower colour: White
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Flowering month: March
Flowering month: April
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Pyrus calleryana
Chinese Lace
A neat attractive Rowan with bright green leaves and dusky pink berries.
Fruit colour: Red
Sorbus
Chocolate Fountain
TM
A purple-leaved weeping form of the Silk Tree, with the characteristic candy-floss pink flowers.
Flower colour: Pink
Leaf colour: Bronze
Flowering month: July
Flowering month: August
Albizia julibrissin
Chocolate Ice
Named after the copper-brown colour of the young leaves which contrast with the large white flowers.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Prunus
Collingwood Ingram
An outstanding small flowering cherry, with deep pink blossom and attractive autumn colour.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Growth habit: Upright
Flower colour: Pink - dark
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Prunus
Common Beech
The Common Beech is a large attractive deciduous tree with good autumn leaf colours.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fagus sylvatica
Common Rowan
The Rowan or Mountain Ash, native to most parts of the UK. The leaves turn golden red in autumn, accompanied by clusters of red berries. One of the largest species of Sorbus.
Fruit colour: Red
Sorbus aucuparia
Comtesse de Paris
Comtesse de Paris can be considered as an improved Golden Hornet. It features the same white blossom and persistent yellow fruitlets, but grows with a better form.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Yellow
Flower colour: White
Leaf colour: Green
Malus
Contorta
This is the most popular of the contorted hazels, with yellow catkins, and particularly attractive in winter.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Corylus avellana
Copper Kettle
Named for its attractive light copper-coloured fruitlets, Copper Kettle is easy to grow and takes up little space.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Yellow
Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange
Sorbus
Cornus florida
This is the American Flowering Dogwood, featuring bright white flowers and strong autumn colours.
Cornus florida
Cornus mas
An unusual tree, with small yellow flowers in mid-winter, red fruitlets in summer, and tinted autumn foliage.
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Cornus mas
Crataegus arnoldiana
An attractive small hawthorn with masses of white blossom and large edible fruitlets.
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Flower colour: White
Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
Flowering month: May
Crataegus arnoldiana
Crataegus monogyna
A hardy native hawthorn species, with white blossom and red haws, and particularly attractive to bees.
Fruit colour: Red - dark
Flower colour: White
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Flowering month: May
Crataegus monogyna
Crataegus schraderiana
This small hawthorn from south-eastern Europe features white flowers and large red edible fruits.
Fruit colour: Crimson
Fruit colour: Red - dark
Flower colour: White
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Flowering month: May
Crataegus schraderiana
Crimson Cascade
A new weeping crab-apple with dusky pink blossom and small dark red fruitlets.
Fruit colour: Red - dark
Flower colour: Crimson
Leaf colour: Bronze
Malus x purpurea
Crimson Cloud
Crimson Cloud has dark red flowers with white centres.
Fruit colour: Red
Flower colour: Red - dark
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Flowering month: May
Crataegus laevigata
Crimson King
Crimson King is a tree fast-growing maple with purple leaves which turn red in the autumn.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Yellow / Crimson
Acer platanoides
Crimson Pointe
TM
A purple-leaved flowering plum tree, which grows with an upright compact form.
Flower colour: White
Growth habit: Columnar / Fastigiate
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Prunus x cerasifera
Croft Coral
Croft Coral is a small rowan tree but the fruits are an orange coral colour rather than the usual red,
Fruit colour: Orange
Sorbus aucuparia
Crystal Falls
®
A compact winter-flowering cherry with double-white flowers and a weeping habit.
Growth habit: Weeping
Flower colour: White
Flower form: Double flower (25-50 petals)
Prunus
Daikoku
Daikoku is one of the less well-known Japanese blossom trees, but features pretty pink - white blossom.
Growth habit: Upright
Flower colour: Pink - light
Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
Flowering month: April
Flowering month: May
Flower form: Double flower (25-50 petals)
Prunus
Dalecarlica
The Swedish birch, an attractive columnar silver birch with drooping branches.
Growth habit: Upright
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Bark: White
Betula pendula
Daphne
One of the best yellow-flowered Magnolias, Daphne flowers over a long period.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flowering month: April
Flower colour: Yellow
Magnolia acuminata
Darkness
This birch features speckled dark bark and an upright habit.
Growth habit: Upright
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Bark: Striated - brown
Betula utilis
Dawyck Gold
Dawyck Gold is a popular beech tree which grows with an upright columnar form.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fagus sylvatica
Dawyck Purple
Dawyck Purple is a popular beech tree with bronze leaves, which grows with an upright columnar form.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fagus sylvatica
Daybreak
A good choice for your first magnolia. Large fragrant pink flowers and a neat upright habit.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flower colour: Pink
Flowering month: April
Magnolia x brooklynensis
Donald Wyman
Donald Wyman is a classic white-flowered crab-apple, with very small red fruits, which persist into mid-winter.
Fruit colour: Red
Flower colour: White
Leaf colour: Green
Malus
Drummondii
A popular form of the Norway Maple, characterised by its variegated leaves.
Height after 10 years: 5m-8m / 16ft-25ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Yellow
Acer platanoides
Eastern Promise
Features feathered leaves, and pink-red fruitlets.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Pink
Sorbus
Edinburgh
Edinburgh is an upright form of the silver birch, discovered in the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens.
Growth habit: Upright
Height after 10 years: 5m-8m / 16ft-25ft
Bark: White
Betula utilis x Betula albosinensis
Elisa Odenwald
Elisa Odenwald is an upright Magnolia which flowers later in the spring, featuring bright creamy white flowers.
Flowering month: April
Flower colour: Cream
Magnolia
Elizabeth
Elizabeth is a small late-flowering Magnolia which displays yellow spring flowers on bare branches.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flowering month: April
Flower colour: Yellow
Magnolia
Elk River
Elk River features large fragrant pink single flowers followed by small bright green crab-apples.
Fruit colour: Green
Flower colour: Pink - light
Leaf colour: Green
Malus coronaria
Ember Glow
This rowan has bluish-green leaves which turn orange-red in the autumn.The fruitlets are red, and persist well into winter.
Fruit colour: Pink
Sorbus aucuparia
Embley
Embley is a form of the Japanese Rowan, featuring red berries and scarlet autumn leaf colours.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Red
Sorbus commixta
Emiel
Emiel has long leaves, with silvery-green undersides, turning orange in autumn.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Red
Sorbus folgneri
Eskimo
The flowers of this Magnolia are a soft sheen of pure white, with a dark pink base.
Flower colour: White
Flowering month: April
Magnolia
Eternal Flame
®
Cercis Eternal Flame is named for its large red / orange leaves.
Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
Flower colour: Pink - dark
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Leaf colour: Yellow
Cercis canadensis
Evereste
Malus Evereste is a popular traditional crab-apple with masses of white blossom, then red-yellow fruits.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Flower colour: White
Leaf colour: Green
Malus
Fascination
Fascination features coppery-orange papery bark and very long catkins, and grows with an upright habit.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Bark: Brown - light
Betula albosinensis
Fastigiata Joes
®
A unique silver birch with a compact upright columnar form and pendulous branches.
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Growth habit: Columnar / Fastigiate
Bark: White
Betula pendula
Fetisowii
A slow-growing small birch with bright white papery peeling bark.
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Bark: White
Betula
Field Maple
The Field Maple makes a good specimen tree with attractive autumn colours, and is easy to grow.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Multiple tints
Acer campestre
Fimbriata
Malus Fimbriata is notable for its double-flowered blossom, very unusual in a crab-apple.
Flower colour: Pink - light
Leaf colour: Green
Malus ioensis
Fingerprint
®
A particularly upright form of the Mountain Ash, and one of the most disease-resistant.
Fruit colour: Red
Sorbus aucuparia
Forest Pansy
Forest Pansy is a deservedly popular small multi-stemmed tree, with purple flowers borne on bare branches followed by multi-coloured leaves.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
Flower colour: Pink - dark
Flower colour: Crimson
Leaf colour: Bronze
Height after 10 years: 1.5m-2.5m / 5ft-8ft
Flower colour: Purple
Growth habit: Multi-stem
Cercis canadensis
Frilly Frock
TM
A small weeping ornamental cherry tree, ideal for small gardens.
Growth habit: Weeping
Flower colour: Pink - light
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Prunus
Frisia
Frisia is a fast-growing Robinia or false acacia tree, featuring attractive golden-green leaves over the summer, and scented flowers which are much-loved by bees.
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Robinia pseudoacacia
Fugenzo
A traditional double-flowered Japanese flowering cherry, also known as Kofugen.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
Flower colour: Pink - light
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Flowering month: May
Leaf colour - autumn: Multiple tints
Flower form: Double flower (25-50 petals)
Prunus
Galaxy
A modern hybrid Magnolia with lightly fragrant purple-pink tulip-shaped flowers.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flower colour: Pink - dark
Flowering month: April
Magnolia
Garnet
One of the "dissectum" group of Japanese acers, with feathery purple leaves.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Height after 10 years: Up to 1.5m / 5ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Multiple tints
Acer palmatum
Genie
Genie is a compact Magnolia, featuring large dark crimson flowers, with a subtle fragrance.
Flower colour: Crimson
Flowering month: May
Magnolia
Gibbsii
Gibbsii grows with a neat spreading columnar form, sprinkled with clusters of bright red fruits in the autumn.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Red
Sorbus hybrida
Ginkgo biloba
Also known as the Maidenhair tree, upright habit, attractive leaves and good autumn colour.
Growth habit: Upright
Height after 10 years: 5m-8m / 16ft-25ft
Ginkgo biloba
Glendoick Spire
TM
A small compact rowan with an upright form, notable for its bright pink fruitlets and feathered leaves.
Fruit colour: Pink
Sorbus aucuparia
Glendoick White Baby
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Glendoick White Baby is a superb tree for autumn colour, with large bright white berries and bright red leaves.
Fruit colour: White
Sorbus
Golden Falls
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A superb small columnar weeping Cercis, with small pink flowers and golden yellow / green leaves.
Growth habit: Weeping
Flower colour: Pink
Height after 10 years: 1.5m-2.5m / 5ft-8ft
Growth habit: Columnar / Fastigiate
Leaf colour: Yellow-green
Cercis canadensis
Golden Gem
A traditional crab-apple featuring a mass of white blossom in spring, followed by yellow crab apples.
Fruit colour: Yellow
Flower colour: White
Leaf colour: Green
Malus
Golden Hornet
Malus Golden Hornet has pink / white blossom then small yellow crab apples which hang on late in the year.
Fruit colour: Yellow
Flower colour: White
Leaf colour: Green
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Malus x zumi
Gorgeous
Malus Gorgeous has pink/white blossom and spherical cherry-like red fruits which are good for jelly.
Fruit colour: Red
Flower colour: Pink - light
Leaf colour: Green
Malus
Guardsman
A very upright columnar species of crab-apple, with white flowers and small green fruitlets.
Fruit colour: Green
Flower colour: White
Leaf colour: Green
Malus trilobata
Halloween
TM
Malus Halloween is named for its ribbed orange-yellow crab-apples, which resemble little pumpkins.
Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange
Flower colour: White
Malus
Hally Jolivette
This graceful flowering cherry is notable for its long-lived white blossom.
Flower colour: White
Flower form: Semi-double flower (10-20 petals)
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Prunus subhirtella
Hanagasa Pink Parasol
A modern Japanese flowering cherry, also known as Pink Parasol, which features large double-flower pink blossom.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
Flower colour: Pink - light
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Flowering month: April
Leaf colour - autumn: Multiple tints
Flower form: Double flower (25-50 petals)
Prunus
Harry Baker
Malus Harry Baker is a popular crab-apple with deep pink flowers and dark red fruits which are very good for crab-apple jelly.
Fruit colour: Red
Flower colour: Crimson
Leaf colour: Green
Malus
Hearts of Gold
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Hearts of Gold is a tree-like Cercis, covered in purple-red flowers in spring followed by yellow-green leaves.
Flower colour: Crimson
Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Leaf colour: Yellow-green
Flower colour: Purple
Flower colour: Mauve
Cercis canadensis
Heptacodium miconioides
Heptacodium miconioides is a small tree with glossy green leaves, clusters of scented flowers, and interesting peeling bark.
Heptacodium miconioides
Hergest
Hergest is a form of the Chinese red birch, and features copper-coloured bark.
Growth habit: Upright
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Bark: Brown - light
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Betula albosinensis
Hokusai
Hokusai is a traditional Japanese pink blossom cherry tree.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flower colour: Pink - light
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Flowering month: April
Leaf colour - autumn: Multiple tints
Flower form: Semi-double flower (10-20 petals)
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Prunus
Honey Tulip
TM
Honey Tulip is named for its creamy honey-yellow tulip-shaped flowers.
Flowering month: April
Flower colour: Cream
Magnolia
Ichiyo
An attractive medium-sized Japanese cherry blossom tree, with classic double shell pink flowers.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flower colour: Pink - light
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Flowering month: April
Flower form: Double flower (25-50 petals)
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
Prunus
Indian Magic
An excellent all-round crab apple, with attractive bronze leaves, dusky pink blossom, and small persistent red fruits.
Fruit colour: Red
Flower colour: Pink
Leaf colour: Bronze
Malus
Jacqueline
Prunus Jacqueline is a new flowering cherry, featuring stunning pink blossom and superb autumn colours.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flower colour: Pink - dark
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Prunus x sargentii
Japanese Lantern
Japanese Lantern features creamy white / pink double-blossom, and autumn leaf colours.
Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
Flower colour: White
Flower colour: Pink - light
Flower colour: Pink
Flower colour: Cream
Flower form: Double flower (25-50 petals)
Prunus
Jelly King
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White blossom followed by large orange-red fruits which are ideal for making crab-apple jelly.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Flower colour: White
Leaf colour: Green
Malus
Jermyns
Jermyns is a variety of the Himalayan birch, notable for its bright white bark and large catkins.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Betula utilis jacquemontii
John Bond
An unusual species of Sorbus, the leaves are particularly attractive for their white undersides.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Brown
Sorbus hemsleyi
John Downie
John Downie is a traditional crab-apple, with white blossom and orange-red fruits, ideal for making crab apple jelly.
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Flower colour: White
Leaf colour: Green
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Malus
John Mitchell
John Mitchell is a popular whitebeam, notable for its large white-green leaves.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Brown
Sorbus x aria
Joli Pompom
The flowers of Magnolia Joli Pompom are the purest sheen of icing sugar white.
Flower colour: White
Flowering month: April
Magnolia
Joseph Rock
A small rowan, with distinctive pale yellow fruitlets. Also one of the best for autumn colour.
Fruit colour: Yellow
Awards: RHS 1st class
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Sorbus
Jubilee
Jubilee features dense white flowers in spring and red berries in the autumn.
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Crataegus succulenta
Kanzan
Kanzan (or Kwanzan) is one of the most popular Japanese flowering cherries, well-suited to the UK climate.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Growth habit: Upright
Flower colour: Pink - dark
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Flowering month: April
Flower form: Double flower (25-50 petals)
Awards: RHS AM
Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
Prunus
Kashmir rowan
An unusual rowan, with light pink blossom, and white fruitlets, which are larger than usual for rowans.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: White
Sorbus cashmiriana
Katherine Havemeyer
A vigorous lilac featuring clusters of purple fragrant double flowers.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
Flower colour: Mauve
Syringa vulgaris
Kiku-shidare-zakura
This is the classic Japanese weeping pink cherry blossom tree (sometimes known as Cheal's Weeping Cherry).
Growth habit: Weeping
Flower colour: Pink
Flowering month: April
Height after 10 years: 1.5m-2.5m / 5ft-8ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Multiple tints
Flower form: Chrysanthemum flower (100+ petals)
Awards: RHS AM
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Prunus
Kojo-no-mai
An excellent small compact blossom tree, featuring a mass of small white flowers, and good autumn colours.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
Flower colour: White
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Prunus incisa
Kursar
A small ornamental early-flowing cherry tree, with profuse blossom.
Flower colour: Pink
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Awards: RHS AM
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Prunus
Laura
Malus Laura is a very upright dwarf crab-apple, with bronze leaves, crimson blossom and maroon fruitlets.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flower colour: Crimson
Leaf colour: Bronze
Malus
Leonard Messel
A good all-round small rowan tree, with good autumn colours and cascades of pink fruitlets.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Pink
Sorbus
Liquidambar styraciflua
An attractive sweet gum tree with excellent autumnal foliage colours.
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Liquidambar styraciflua
Little Pink Perfection
Little Pink Perfection is a dwarf form of Pink Perfection, ideal for patio containers and small spaces.
Flower colour: Pink
Height after 10 years: Up to 1.5m / 5ft
Flowering month: April
Flowering month: May
Flower form: Double flower (25-50 petals)
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
Prunus
Louisa
Malus Louisa is a pretty weeping crab apple with light pink blossom and small yellow fruitlets.
Fruit colour: Orange
Flower colour: Pink - light
Leaf colour: Green
Malus
LUTECE Nanguen
TM
Ulmus LUTECE Nanguen is one of the best of the elm varieties which have some resistance to Dutch Elm Disease.
Ulmus
Lutescens
An excellent garden tree, very hardy, easy to grow, and tolerant of a wide range of soils and conditions. Grey-green leaves turn russet in autumn, with orange berries.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Sorbus aria
Madame Lemoine
A large spreading lilac, featuring clusters of double white flowers.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flower colour: White
Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
Syringa vulgaris
Malus baccata
The Siberian crab-apple, noted for its exceptional cold-hardiness, disease-resistance, attractive blossom and clusters of cherry-like fruitlets in autumn,
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Flower colour: White
Leaf colour: Green
Malus baccata
Malus florentina
Malus florentina is an unusual crab-apple with white blossom, tiny fruitlets, and serrated leaves which take on good autumn colours.
Fruit colour: Green / Red
Flower colour: White
Leaf colour: Green
Malus florentina
Malus floribunda
Malus floribunda is also known as the Japanese Crab. Pink / white blossom then red / yellow fruits.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Yellow / Red
Flower colour: White
Leaf colour: Green
Malus floribunda
Malus hupehensis
A traditional garden crab-apple from China, with white blossom and small red-tinged fruitlets, a good choice as a specimen tree.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Green / Red
Flower colour: White
Leaf colour: Green
Malus hupehensis
Malus sylvestris
Malus sylvestris is the native wild crab apple, easy to grow and ideal for native planting schemes.
Malus sylvestris
Malus transitoria
Malus transitoria is known as the Cut-leaf crab-apple, has a mass of small white flowers, and clusters of tiny yellow fruitlets.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Yellow
Flower colour: White
Leaf colour: Green
Malus transitoria
Malus tschonoskii
A traditional Japanese crab-apple species, with white blossom and superb autumn leaf colours.
Fruit colour: Green / Red
Flower colour: White
Leaf colour: Green
Malus tschonoskii
Matthew Ridley
An upright-growing Mountain Ash with dense white flowers and clusters of orange-red autumn berries.
Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange
Sorbus
McBeath
A slow-growing Himalayan birch with a bright white stem, a good choice for small gardens.
Growth habit: Upright
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Bark: White
Betula utilis
Merlot
Merlot is an upright spreading Cercis with purple blossom followed by wine-red leaves which turn green over the summer.
Leaf colour: Green
Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
Cercis canadensis x texensis
Mikinori
Mikinori is a classic early-flowering Fuji cherry tree, with red autumn leaf colours.
Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
Flower colour: White
Flower colour: Pink - light
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Prunus incisa
Moonbeam
Moonbeam is an excellent form of the Himalayan birch, with the characteristic white trunk, but much smaller than other forms of this popular species.
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Bark: White
Bark: Peeling
Betula utilis
Niedzwetzkyana
Niedzwetzkyana is a unique red-fleshed, red-skinned, red blossom crab-apple, originating from central Asia.
Fruit colour: Red - dark
Flower colour: Red - dark
Leaf colour: Green
Malus domestica
Nigra
A popular flowering cherry-plum tree, with dark purple leaves and pale pink blossom.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
Flower colour: Pink - light
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Prunus cerasifera
NUVAR® Marble
A modern English crab-apple, with large fruits, ideal for early-season crab-apple jelly.
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Flower colour: White
Leaf colour: Green
Malus
Obelisk
®
Obelisk is an upright Amelanchier, with white spring blossom, and attractive autumn colours, ideal for small spaces.
Flower colour: White
Flowering month: May
Leaf colour - autumn: Multiple tints
Amelanchier alnifolia
October Glory
®
A well-named form of the North American Red Maple - the leaves turn a spectacular red in the autumn.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Height after 10 years: 5m-8m / 16ft-25ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
Acer rubrum
Okame
Okame is a small hardy blossom tree featuring shell-pink single flowers and attractive autumn colours.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flower colour: Pink
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Prunus incisa x Prunus campanulata
Oklahoma
A large Cercis with dark pink lilac blossom followed by large rich green foliage, turning yellow in autumn.
Flower colour: Pink - dark
Leaf colour: Green
Height after 10 years: 5m-8m / 16ft-25ft
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Cercis canadensis var. texensis
Olympic Flame
Olympic Flame (or Dodong) is an attractive small rowan tree, its orange/red autumn leaf-colours are amongst the best.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Sorbus ulleungensis
Ombrella
®
One of the best Albizias for cooler climates. Candy floss pink flowers in July and August, and bright green feathery leaves.
Flower colour: Pink
Leaf colour: Green
Flowering month: July
Flowering month: August
Flowering month: September
Albizia julibrissin
Orange Dream
Orange-tinged young leaves turn yellow over the summer, then gold in autumn.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Yellow
Acer palmatum
Osakazuki
A classic Japanese maple, noted for its bright red autumn foliage.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
Acer palmatum
Oshidori Princesse
A small ornamental cherry with double white flowers, and autumn leaf colours.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
Flower colour: White
Flower form: Double flower (25-50 petals)
Prunus incisa
Palibin
A slow-growing dwarfing Korean lilac, ideal for borders and smaller spaces.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Height after 10 years: 1.5m-2.5m / 5ft-8ft
Flower colour: Mauve
Syringa meyeri
Palo Alto
This form of Liquidambar features long narrow lobed leaves and strong long-lived autumnal foliage colours.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Liquidambar styraciflua
Pandora
An excellent small flowering cherry, with pale pink blossom, and interesting leaf colour in both spring and autumn.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Growth habit: Upright
Flower colour: Pink - light
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Prunus
Paul's Scarlet
A popular small hawthorn with distinctive dark pink blossom with white centres.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Red
Flower colour: Pink - dark
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Flowering month: May
Crataegus laevigata
Pearls
A small spreading rowan tree, named for its clusters of pearl-white berries.
Fruit colour: White
Sorbus bissetii
Pendula
A small graceful weeping Fuji cherry, with small single white flowers.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Growth habit: Weeping
Flower colour: White
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Prunus incisa
Pendula
A very attractive flowering pear tree, notable for its distinctive weeping branches, and silver-green leaves.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flower colour: White
Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
Flowering month: April
Pyrus salcifolia
Pendula Plena Rosea
One of the most attractive and oldest of the traditional Japanese weeping cherries.
Growth habit: Weeping
Flower colour: Pink - dark
Flower form: Double flower (25-50 petals)
Prunus pendula
Pendula Rubra
An attractive early-flowering wide-spreading weeping Japanese pink cherry blossom tree.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Growth habit: Weeping
Flower colour: Pink
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Prunus pendula
Pink Cascade
As the name suggests this Robinia features a profusion of scented pink pea-like flowers.
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Robinia x margaretta
Pink Charm
A small rowan with a spreading habit, large feathered leaves, and bright pink berries.
Fruit colour: Pink
Sorbus vilmorinii
Pink Glow
Malus Dolgo, also known as Pink Glow, offers early-season white flowers and very attractive dark pink fruits. It is exceptionally cold-hardy.
Flower colour: White
Leaf colour: Green
Malus baccata
Pink Ness
A very upright rowan tree, with pretty pink fruitlets.
Fruit colour: Pink
Sorbus
Pink Pagoda
Pink Pagoda features clusters of pale pink fruits in late summer, and good autumn foliage colours.
Fruit colour: Pink
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Sorbus hupehensis
Pink Pearl
A small upright rowan tree with clusters of pink-flecked white fruitlets.
Fruit colour: Pink
Fruit colour: White
Sorbus
Pink Perfection
Malus Pink Perfection is a superb crab-apple with double pink scented flowers.
Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange
Flower colour: Pink
Leaf colour: Green
Malus
Pink Perfection
The definitive pink blossom tree, offers a long-lasting display of pink double flowers.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flower colour: Pink
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Flowering month: April
Flowering month: May
Flower form: Double flower (25-50 petals)
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
Prunus
Pink Pom Poms
®
While most Cercis feature single flowers, Pink Pom Pom has true double flowers, for a more intense blossom display.
Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
Flower colour: Pink - dark
Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
Flower colour: Mauve
Cercis canadensis
Pink Shell
This perfectly named flowering cherry features clusters of pink blossom hanging like pink shells.
Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
Flower colour: White
Flower colour: Pink - light
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Prunus
Plena
A compact hawthorn which features double white flowers.
Flower colour: White
Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
Flowering month: May
Crataegus laevigata
Plena
A form of the native English wild cherry, featuring which has double white flowers rather than single flowers.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Growth habit: Upright
Flower colour: White
Flower form: Double flower (25-50 petals)
Prunus avium
Powder Puff
Powder Puff (also known as Kobuku-zakura) is an early-flowering white cherry blossom tree, with particularly luxuriant double-white flowers.
Flower colour: White
Flower form: Double flower (25-50 petals)
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Prunus
Praecox
A small and hardy winter-flowering cherry, ideal for winter colour and small gardens.
Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
Flower colour: White
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Prunus incisa
Prairie Fire
®
Malus Prairie Fire is a medium-size upright crab-apple tree, notable for its dark pink flowers.
Fruit colour: Red
Flower colour: Pink - dark
Leaf colour: Green
Malus
Primrose
As the name suggests this lilac features clusters of pale primrose yellow flowers.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
Flower colour: Yellow
Syringa vulgaris
Princeton Gold
®
Princeton Gold is a versatile fast-growing form of the Norway Maple, named for its golden-green leaves.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Gold
Leaf colour - autumn: Yellow
Acer platanoides
Professor Sprenger
A well-proportioned crab-apple with profuse white blossom, and golden-orange fruitlets in autumn.
Fruit colour: Orange
Flower colour: White
Leaf colour: Green
Malus x zumi
Profusion
Malus Profusion (also known as Directeur Moerlands) is a classic crab apple variety, with dense clusters of deep pink blossom followed by small crimson berry-like fruitlets.
Fruit colour: Red - dark
Flower colour: Crimson
Leaf colour: Bronze
Malus x moerlandsii
Prunifolia Splendens
Prunifolia Splendens is one of the best hawthorns for autumn colour and persistent red fruits.
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Flowering month: May
Crataegus persimilis
Prunus avium
The native "Gean" or "Mazzard" cherry, makes an attractive woodland tree.
Growth habit: Upright
Flower colour: White
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Prunus avium
Prunus Gyoiko
Gyoiko is a pleasing Japanese flowering cherry tree, featuring unusual cream-coloured blossom.
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Flowering month: April
Flowering month: May
Flower colour: Cream
Leaf colour - autumn: Multiple tints
Flower form: Semi-double flower (10-20 petals)
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Prunus
Prunus Horinji
A small upright flowering cherry tree with large pink-tinted white blossom.
Flower colour: White
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Flowering month: April
Leaf colour - autumn: Green
Flower form: Semi-double flower (10-20 petals)
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Prunus
Prunus litigiosa
A columnar flowering cherry, often called the Tassel Cherry because of unusual shape of its white flowers.
Flower colour: White
Growth habit: Columnar / Fastigiate
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Prunus litigiosa
Prunus rufa
This is the Himalayan cherry, notable for its attractive exfoliating bark, and hairy young shoots.
Growth habit: Upright
Flower colour: Pink - light
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Prunus rufa
Prunus sargentii
Sargent's Cherry is an impressive ornamental cherry, scoring highly for blossom, autumn colour, and its attractive form.
Flower colour: Pink
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Flowering month: April
Leaf colour - autumn: Multiple tints
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Awards: RHS AM
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Prunus sargentii
Prunus serrula
A popular flowering cherry tree species, The Tibetan cherry or Birch Bark cherry is well-known for its attractive bark.
Flower colour: White
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Awards: RHS AM
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Prunus serrula
Purple Fountain
Purple Fountain is a popular form of the Weeping Beech featuring dark purple bronze leaves.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fagus sylvatica
Purpurea
Purpurea is an impressive purple-leaved form of the Common Beech, sometimes known as the Purple Beech or Copper Beech.
Fagus sylvatica
Purpurea Evelyn
Malus Purpurea Evelyn is a purple-leaved form of the Prairie crab.
Fruit colour: Green / Yellow
Flower colour: Pink - dark
Leaf colour: Dark purple
Malus ioensis
Quercus ilex
Quercus ilex is an evergreen oak.
Quercus ilex
R J Hilton
R J Hilton features large white flowers, copper-coloured young leaves, and attractive autumn leaf colours.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flower colour: White
Flowering month: April
Leaf colour - autumn: Yellow / Crimson
Amelanchier laevis
Rainbow Pillar
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An upright columnar Amelanchier with white blossom and good autumn colours.
Amelanchier canadensis
Ravensbill
This rowan tree is named for the the black colour of its winter buds. It also features yellow autumn leaves and orange berries.
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Sorbus
Rebecca's Perfume
As the name suggests the light pink flowers of this Magnolia hybrid are attractively scented.
Flower colour: Pink - light
Flowering month: April
Magnolia
Red Bird
Red Bird features bright white flowers, orange / red fruits and good autumn leaf colours. It has a wider climate range than other rowans.
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Sorbus alnifolia
Red Flamingo
A small snake-bark maple featuring brilliant red stems and variegated pink, white, and green leaves.
Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Yellow
Acer x conspicuum
Red Majestic
A red-leaved form of the contorted or twisted hazel.
Corylus avellana
Red Obelisk
Malus Red Obelisk is a compact upright crab-apple with white flowers, purple / green leaves, and red fruits.
Fruit colour: Red
Flower colour: White
Flower colour: Pink - light
Leaf colour: Green
Malus
Red Sentinel
A deservedly popular crab-apple, Malus Red Sentinel has classic white apple blossom and a profusion of tiny scarlet persistent fruits.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Red
Flower colour: White
Leaf colour: Green
Awards: RHS AM
Malus x robusta
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
Roberts Crab
An unusual red-fleshed crab-apple which has large purple fruits. The juice is a claret red colour.
Fruit colour: Purple
Flower colour: Pink - dark
Leaf colour: Bronze
Malus domestica
Robin Hill
An upright Amelanchier with pink buds opening to snow white flowers, with good autumn colours.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flower colour: White
Flower colour: Pink - light
Flowering month: April
Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
Amelanchier x grandiflora
Rockhampton Red
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An excellent form of the common Hornbeam, notable for its fiery orange-red autumn foliage.
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
Carpinus betulus
Rose Queen
An unusual small rowan tree, featuring clusters of dark-pink red very persistent berries.
Fruit colour: Red
Fruit colour: Red - dark
Sorbus
Rosea Flore Pleno
A popular ornamental hawthorn, featuring pink double flowers with cream centres.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flower colour: Pink
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Flowering month: May
Crataegus laevigata
Rosehip
Malus Rosehip features white blossom and large rosehip-shaped red fruits.
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Flower colour: White
Leaf colour: Green
Malus
Rosiness
A small rowan tree with white-pink flowers and cascades of pink berries.
Fruit colour: Pink
Sorbus rosea
Royal Beauty
Royal Beauty is a compact weeping crab apple with crimson blossom and small crimson berry-like fruitlets.
Fruit colour: Red - dark
Flower colour: Crimson
Leaf colour: Green
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Malus
Royal Burgundy
Royal Burgundy is a flowering cherry with striking red purple foliage combined with double pink flowers.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flower colour: Pink - dark
Flower form: Double flower (25-50 petals)
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Prunus
Royal Flame
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A flowering cherry with profuse white blossom in spring and outstanding fiery autumn colours.
Growth habit: Upright
Flower colour: White
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Prunus
Royal Frost
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An unusual silver birch with bronze-coloured leaves, and a white stem.
Height after 10 years: 5m-8m / 16ft-25ft
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Bark: White
Betula x populifolia
Royalty
Malus Royalty has bright purple-red blossom, dark green-bronze leaves, and dark red fruitlets.
Fruit colour: Red - dark
Flower colour: Red - dark
Leaf colour: Bronze
Malus domestica
Rubrum
One of the best forms of the Cappadocian Maple, featuring a range of leaf colours from spring to autumn.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Yellow
Acer cappadocicum
Ruby Falls
Ruby Falls is a popular weeping Cercis with large bronze leaves, which emerge after the light purple spring blossom.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Growth habit: Weeping
Flower colour: Pink
Leaf colour: Green
Height after 10 years: 1.5m-2.5m / 5ft-8ft
Cercis canadensis
Rudolph
Malus Rudoph features very large single deep pink flowers, and small orange fruits.
Fruit colour: Orange
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange
Flower colour: Pink
Leaf colour: Green
Malus
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
Scanlon
An upright form of the popular red maple, with an attractive shape and reliable autumn colour.
Height after 10 years: 5m-8m / 16ft-25ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Acer rubrum
Scarlet Brandywine
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A new crab-apple featuring stunning pink scented double-flowers and good autumn colour.
Fruit colour: Orange
Flower colour: Pink
Flower colour: Pink - dark
Leaf colour: Green
Malus x purpurea x ioensis
Scarlett
Malus toringo Scarlett is an ornamental crab apple with bronze leaves, dusky pink blossom, and dark red fruitlets.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Purple
Flower colour: Pink
Leaf colour: Bronze
Malus toringo
Sensation
Sensation is an unusual lilac with large single purple / white flowers.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
Flower colour: Mauve
Syringa vulgaris
Shirazz
TM
Magnolia Shirazz features large crimson tulip-shaped flowers.
Flower colour: Pink - dark
Flowering month: March
Magnolia
Shirofugen
Shirofugen is a traditional Japanese flowering cherry with large double-white flowers, also known as Fugenzo.
Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
Flower colour: White
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Flowering month: May
Leaf colour - autumn: Multiple tints
Flower form: Double flower (25-50 petals)
Prunus serrulata
Shirotae
Prunus Shirotae features large single or semi-double fragrant white flowers, and is perhaps the most beautiful of the white-flowered Japanese cherries.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
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
Shizuka - Fragrant Cloud
A Japanese flowering cherry with large fragrant bright white blossom, and strong autumn colours.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flower colour: White
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Flowering month: May
Flower form: Semi-double flower (10-20 petals)
Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Gold
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Prunus
Shogetsu - Blushing Bride
One of the loveliest of the white-blossom Japanese flowering cherries.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
Flower colour: White
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Flowering month: May
Leaf colour - autumn: Yellow / Crimson
Flower form: Double flower (25-50 petals)
Prunus
Shosar
An upright fastigate flowering cherry with pink blossom and good autumn leaf colours.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Growth habit: Upright
Flower colour: Pink - light
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Prunus campanulata x incisa x sargentii
Silver Birch
The Common Silver Birch, native to Europe, popular for its peeling white bark and pendulous branches.
Height after 10 years: 5m-8m / 16ft-25ft
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Bark: White
Betula alba pendula
Silver Sails
An attractive upright flowering pear tree with silvery green foliage, and small ornamental fruits.
Flower colour: White
Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
Flowering month: March
Pyrus elaeagnifolia
Silver Shadow
Silver Shadow is one of the loveliest of the Himalayan birches, notable for its presence and pure white stem.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Bark: White
Betula utilis jacquemontii
Slender Silhouette
Slender Silhouette is a particularly columnar form of Liquidambar, with vibrant yellow and red autumn foliage colours.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Liquidambar styraciflua
Snow Goose
A small upright flowering cherry tree with particularly large single white flowers.
Growth habit: Upright
Flower colour: White
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Prunus incisa x speciosa
Snow Queen
An attractive tree, and one of the best forms of the Himalayan birch, with a bright white stem.
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Bark: White
Betula utilis
Snow Showers
Snow Showers is a compact slow-growing flowering cherry, with long weeping branches and a mass of white single flowers.
Growth habit: Weeping
Flower colour: White
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Prunus
Snowflakes
A popular Amelanchier, featuring large single flowers, coppery foliage, and good autumn colours.
Flower colour: White
Flowering month: April
Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
Amelanchier laevis
Somei-Yoshino
The Somei-Yoshino cherry with its graceful wide-spreading branches and large white flowers is the definitive Japanese flowering cherry.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
Flower colour: White
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Prunus x yedoensis
Sorbus discolor
Sorbus discolor features yellow berries which take on pink hues as they mature.
Sorbus discolor
Sorbus hupehensis
A classic rowan tree with pink berries and good autumn leaf colours.
Fruit colour: Pink
Sorbus hupehensis
Sorbus japonica
An upright rowan with large oval leaves and attractive autumn colours and large red fruitlets.
Fruit colour: Red
Sorbus japonica
Sorbus pseudovilmorinii
Similar characteristics to Sorbus vilmorinii, not quite as vigorous, but heavier fruiting.
Fruit colour: Pink
Fruit colour: White
Sorbus pseudovilmorinii
Sorbus sargentiana
A broad spreading rowan with bright orange fruitlets and autumn foliage.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Sorbus sargentiana
Sorbus scalaris
One of the more spreading smaller Rowan species, with orange/red autumn leaf colours, and clusters of small orange fruilets.
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Sorbus scalaris
Sorbus vilmorinii
The main feature of this Rowan trees is the pink fruitlets, which turn white as autumn progresses. It is one of the smaller Sorbus species, but also one of the more spreading.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Pink
Fruit colour: White
Sorbus vilmorinii
Souvenir de Louis Spaeth
Souvenir de Louis Spaeth is a highly scented lilac, with lilac-purple flowers.
Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
Flower colour: Purple
Syringa vulgaris
Spectrum
This upright hybrid Magnolia features dark pink tulip-shaped flowers.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flower colour: Pink - dark
Flowering month: April
Magnolia
Spider Alley
®
Spider Alley is a silver birch with unusual contorted twisting branches, and a pure white stem.
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Betula pendula
Spire
A compact upright blossom tree with pale pink flowers, and orange-red autumn foliage colours.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Growth habit: Upright
Flower colour: Pink - light
Flower form: Semi-double flower (10-20 petals)
Prunus
Spring Glow
Spring Glow is a stunning sight in early spring, with its large deep pink single flowers, followed by dark purple foliage.
Growth habit: Upright
Flower colour: Pink - dark
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Prunus x persicoides
Spring Snow
A Japanese flowering cherry with double-flowered white blossom borne on bare branches, followed by coppery-leaves.
Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
Flower colour: White
Flower form: Double flower (25-50 petals)
Prunus
Stared
Stared features small dainty 7-lobed leaves which are deeply incised and offer strong autumn colours.
Height after 10 years: 5m-8m / 16ft-25ft
Liquidambar styraciflua
Starlight
A flowering cherry with star-shaped flowers. Winner of the Plant of the Year award at the 2024 RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
Flower colour: White
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Awards: RHS Plant of the Year
Prunus
Stellata
A small flowering cherry tree, named after its star-shaped pink blossom.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
Flower colour: Pink - light
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Prunus pendula
Sugar Maple
The Sugar Maple is the primary maple species used for producing maple syrup.
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Multiple tints
Acer saccharum
Summer Chocolate
A popular form of the Silk Tree with burgundy foliage and scented cream powder puff blooms.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flower colour: Pink
Leaf colour: Bronze
Flowering month: July
Flowering month: August
Albizia julibrissin
Sun Rival
Malus Sun Rival is a popular weeping crab-apple, with pale pink blossom and small red berry-like fruitlets.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Red
Flower colour: Pink - light
Leaf colour: Green
Malus
Sun Valley
A good example of the Red Maple, featuring fiery red autumn leaf colours.
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
Acer rubrum
Sunset Boulevard
A large flowering cherry tree with a distinctive columnar form, and large single white flowers.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flower colour: White
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Flowering month: April
Growth habit: Columnar / Fastigiate
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Gold
Prunus
Sunshine
A small rowan tree with an upright form and golden yellow clusters of fruits, and strong autumn colours.
Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange
Sorbus
Susan
A compact Magnolia with crimson / white scented flowers.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flower colour: Pink - dark
Flowering month: April
Magnolia
Tai-haku
A traditional Japanese flowering cherry, known as the "Great White Cherry" and notable for its very large single white flowers.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
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
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Awards: RHS AM
Prunus serrulata
Tamukeyama
Tamukeyama is one of the best dissected-leaf Japanese maples, the leaves vary from red to purple over the season.
Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
Acer palmatum
Texas White
An unusual Cercis featuring large white flowers, followed by green leaves which turn yellow in autumn.
Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
Flower colour: White
Leaf colour: Green
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Flower colour: Cream
Growth habit: Multi-stem
Cercis canadensis var. texensis
The Bride
A small ornamental cherry with large single white flowers.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
Flower colour: White
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Prunus
The Rising Sun
TM
The Rising Sun is an attractive Cercis featuring lilac-coloured blossom followed by young orange-tinted yellow foliage.
Leaf colour: Green
Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Flower colour: Mauve
Cercis canadensis
Thornhayes Tansy
A form of the Cut-leaf crab-apple, with particularly dissected leaves.
Fruit colour: Yellow
Flower colour: White
Leaf colour: Green
Malus transitoria
Tiltstone Hellfire
Tilstone Hellfire is small flowering cherry tree with large single flowers, and spectacular autumn colours.
Flower colour: Pink - light
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Prunus
Tina
Malus Tina is a small spreading crab-apple, useful as a patio tree.
Fruit colour: Red
Flower colour: White
Leaf colour: Green
Malus sargentii
Trailblazer
An ornamental plum with white blossom and purple leaves, usually also produces dark red cherry-plums fruits, which can be eaten or cooked.
Flower colour: White
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Prunus cerasifera
Trinity College
A small attractive birch tree with bright white bark from a young age.
Growth habit: Upright
Height after 10 years: 5m-8m / 16ft-25ft
Bark: White
Betula utilis jacquemontii
Trompenburg
An upright tree-like Acer with deeply cut purple leaves which turn fiery red in the autumn.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
Acer palmatum
Ukon
A very attractive Japanese blossom tree, with unique cream-coloured flowers.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Flowering month: April
Flowering month: May
Flower colour: Cream
Leaf colour - autumn: Multiple tints
Flower form: Semi-double flower (10-20 petals)
Prunus
Vanilla Twist
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Vanilla Twist is an unusual compact weeping Cercis featuring snow-white blossom.
Growth habit: Weeping
Flower colour: White
Leaf colour: Green
Height after 10 years: 1.5m-2.5m / 5ft-8ft
Flower colour: Mauve
Cercis canadensis
Wakehurst Place Chocolate
This lovely Himalayan Birch is named for its chocolate-coloured peeling striated bark.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Growth habit: Upright
Height after 10 years: 5m-8m / 16ft-25ft
Bark: Striated - brown
Betula utilis
Wedding Bouquet
Malus Wedding Bouquet features ivory-white blossom and tiny red berry-like fruitlets.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Red - dark
Flower colour: White
Leaf colour: Green
Malus brevipes
Weeping Yoshino
A weeping form of the traditional Japanese Yoshino flowing cherry.
Growth habit: Weeping
Flower colour: White
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Prunus x yedoensis pendula
White Chocolate
A small fast-growing birch tree with bright white bark.
Growth habit: Upright
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Bark: White
Growth habit: Pyramidal
Betula ermanii
White Fountain
This flowering dogwood is characterised by its large white bracts, and attractive red autumn leaf colours.
Cornus kousa
Wingham
A new Elm variety with very good resistance to Dutch Elm Disease and a good host for the White-letter Hairstreak butterfly.
Ulmus x
Wisley Gold
A good-sized yellow-fruiting mountain ash, with a spreading form.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Yellow
Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange
Sorbus
Worplesdon
An elegant upright conical tree with excellent orange and gold autumn leaf colours.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Liquidambar styraciflua
Wredei
A compact elm tree which does not get too big, with green leaves which turn yellow in full sun.
Ulmus x hollandica
Yamadei
A small shrub-like ornamental cherry with clusters of white bell-shaped flowers and orange autumn leaf colours.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flower colour: White
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Prunus incisa
Yellow Bird
A medium-sized late-flowering Magnolia, one of the best yellow-flowered forms for the smaller garden.
Flowering month: May
Flower colour: Yellow
Magnolia x brooklynensis
Youngii
A weeping silver birch, the branches trail to the ground.
Growth habit: Weeping
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Bark: White
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Betula pendula