Spring 2024
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Albizia (Silk) trees
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20
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Flowering cherry trees
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Japanese flowering cherries
15
Flowering pears
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6
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12L pot
137
11.5L pot
12
8L-9L pot
4
7L pot
8
Growing
Gardening skill
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Beginner
113
Average
25
Experienced
1
Awards
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RHS AGM (current)
68
RHS AGM (former)
14
RHS AM
7
RHS 1st class
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Attractive features
Attractive flowers
87
Attractive fruit
39
Attractive tree / plant
42
Attractive bark
28
Attractive foliage
40
Autumn foliage colour
84
Variegated foliage
13
Scented flowers
27
Scented foliage
2
Seed heads / pods
Winter colour
4
Spring foliage colour
Summer foliage colour
11
Growth habit
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Columnar / Fastigiate
5
Upright
37
Upright-spreading / Vase
57
Pyramidal
Spreading / Flat-topped
33
Weeping
10
Multi-stem
2
Height after 10 years
Up to 1.5m / 5ft
4
1.5m-2.5m / 5ft-8ft
13
2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
30
3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
88
5m-8m / 16ft-25ft
12
Sunlight
Prefers full sun
70
Some shade
11
Tolerates shade
27
Pruning
Do not prune
31
No need to prune
5
Light prune
60
Prune after flowering
16
Prune hard
11
Growth rate
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Fast
22
Average
62
Slow
22
Site conditions
Sheltered site
25
Windy site
12
Free-draining site
35
Occasional flooding
48
Occasional drought
35
Coastal site
29
Air pollution
5
Wildlife
Attractive to birds
51
RHS Plants for Pollinators
16
Melliferous
4
Seeds / fruits useful for animals
2
Identification
Flower colour
White
64
Cream
3
Pink - light
13
Pink
12
Pink - dark
15
Red - dark
1
Crimson
4
Magenta
1
Purple
3
Mauve
5
Yellow
1
Flower form
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Single flower (5-8 petals)
40
Semi-double flower (10-20 petals)
9
Double flower (25-50 petals)
16
Chrysanthemum flower (100+ petals)
2
Flowering month
January
1
February
6
March
14
April
40
May
54
June
17
July
3
August
3
September
November
December
Leaf colour
Green
115
Bronze
11
Dark purple
7
Grey-green
6
Bluish-green
1
Yellow
Yellow-green
4
Pink-white-green variegated
2
White-green variegated
Leaf colour - autumn
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Green
14
Yellow
24
Yellow / Crimson
3
Orange / Gold
8
Orange / Red
35
Bronze / Purple
8
Multiple tints
21
Leaf/Flower sequence
Leaves appear first
11
Flowers appear first
23
Leaves and Flowers appear together
2
Fruit colour
Black
2
Blue - dark
Bronze
Brown
2
Crimson
1
Gold
1
Green
1
Green / Red
Green / Yellow
Orange
2
Orange / Red
10
Pink
5
Purple
2
Red
12
Red - dark
7
Red / Black
Russet
Yellow
6
Yellow / Orange
3
Yellow / Red
White
1
Fruit size
Very small
3
Small
10
Average
2
Large
6
Very large
Fruit persistence
?
Normal ripening
4
Fruit drops when ripe
2
Ripens over a period
4
Persistent
29
Food uses
Jam / Jelly
11
Bark
White
10
Grey
7
Brown - light
3
Brown - chocolate
3
Brown / Red
1
Copper / Purple
Striated - brown
2
Striated - red
Peeling
3
Country of origin
Australia
Belgium
3
Canada
1
China
14
Denmark
France
1
Germany
2
Ireland
1
Italy
Japan
20
Kazakhstan
Korea
Netherlands
6
New Zealand
6
Portugal
Russia
1
South Korea
2
Spain
Sweden
1
Turkey
1
United Kingdom
25
United States
25
Annual cycle
Deciduous
145
Evergreen
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Varieties list
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
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
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
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
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
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
Beissneri
Beissneri is a compact form of the Common Rowan, with red berries and good autumn colours.
Fruit colour: Red
Sorbus aucuparia
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 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 Tulip
®
Black Tulip has deep ruby red flowers, the darkest of any Magnolia variety.
Flower colour: Crimson
Flowering month: April
Flower colour: Magenta
Magnolia
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
Branklyn
One of the best forms of Prunus serrula, grown for its beautiful peeling brown bark.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flower colour: White
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Prunus serrula
Brilliantissimum
A distinctive dwarf sycamore, named for the colour of its stunning pink spring leaves.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
Leaf colour - autumn: Multiple tints
Acer pseudoplatanus
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
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
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
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
China Ruby
A slow-growing form of the Chinese red birch, featuring peeling copper-coloured bark and long catkins.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Bark: Striated - brown
Betula albosinensis
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
Cinderella
®
A naturally dwarf bushy-crab-apple. White blossom followed by tiny golden spherical fruitlets, and yellow autumn leaf colours.
Fruit colour: Gold
Flower colour: White
Leaf colour: Green
Malus
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 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
Cornus florida
This is the American Flowering Dogwood, featuring bright white flowers and strong autumn colours.
Cornus florida
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 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
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
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
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
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
Emiel
Emiel has long leaves, with silvery-green undersides, turning orange in autumn.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Red
Sorbus folgneri
Esk Sunset
A small slow-growing sycamore maple featuring exotic pink green and white variegated leaves.
Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
Acer pseudoplatanus
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
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
Evy's Pride
A form of the Persian silk tree with large pink flowers and fern-like leaves which turn brick red in the autumn.
Flower colour: Pink
Leaf colour: Dark purple
Flowering month: July
Flowering month: August
Albizia julibrissin
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
Felix Jury
Felix Jury is a form of the Formosan cherry, featuring crimson pink blossom in early spring.
Flower colour: Pink - dark
Growth habit: Columnar / Fastigiate
Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
Prunus campanulata
Felix Jury
TM
Felix Jury is notable for its huge crimson purple flowers.
Flower colour: Pink - dark
Flowering month: April
Magnolia
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
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
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
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
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
Golden Falls
®
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
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
Hearts of Gold
®
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
Jelly King
®
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Matthew Ridley
An upright-growing Mountain Ash with dense white flowers and clusters of orange-red autumn berries.
Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange
Sorbus
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
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
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
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
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 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 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 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 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 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
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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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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 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
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 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
®
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
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
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
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
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 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
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 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 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
Spectrum
This upright hybrid Magnolia features dark pink tulip-shaped flowers.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flower colour: Pink - dark
Flowering month: April
Magnolia
Stared
Stared features small dainty 7-lobed leaves which are deeply incised and offer strong autumn colours.
Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
Liquidambar styraciflua
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
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
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
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
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