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List of trees which have great autumn colours

A selection of trees offering attractive autumn leaf or fruit colours.

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Varieties list

  • Japanese maple trees

    Acer palmatum Dissectum

    Acer palmatum Dissectum japanese maple trees
    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
  • Cercis

    Alley Cat

    Alley Cat is a Redbud featuring dark pink flowers and colourful pink / green / white leaves.
    • Growth habit: Spreading
    • Flower colour: Pink - dark
    • Leaf colour: Green
    • Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
    • Leaf colour: Pink-white-green variegated
    Cercis canadensis
  • Amelanchier

    Amelanchier lamarckii

    This small shrub-like tree has perhaps the strongest autumn display of any Amelanchier.
    • Flower colour: White
    • Flowering month: April
    • Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
    Amelanchier lamarckii
  • Rowan

    Asplenifolia

    Asplenifolia rowan
    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
  • Maple

    Aureum

    Aureum maple
    As the name suggests, this is a form of the Cappodician Maple featuring golden-green leaves which take on multiple tints in the autumn.
    • Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
    • Leaf colour - autumn: Multiple tints
    Acer cappadocicum
  • Maple

    Autumn Blaze

    Autumn Blaze maple
    Spectacular, bright orange red leaves.A hybrid of Acer rubrum /saccharnum.Height after 10yr 6m/20ft
    • Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
    • Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
    Acer x Freemanii
  • Rowan

    Autumn Spire®

    Autumn Spire (Flanrock) is a columnar rowan with yellow fruitlets and excellent autumn colour.
    • Fruit colour: Yellow
    Sorbus aucuparia
  • Cercis

    Avondale

    A compact Chinese Redbud, featuring an intense display of purple blossom, followed by large green leaves. Ideal for small spaces.
    • Growth habit: Spreading
    • Leaf colour: Green
    • Height after 10 years: 1.5m-2.5m / 5ft-8ft
    • Flower colour: Purple
    Cercis chinensis
  • Amelanchier

    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
    Amelanchier x grandiflora
  • Crab-apple trees

    Barbara

    Barbara crab-apple trees
    Malus Barbara has dark pink blossom and small purple fruitlets.
    • Fruit colour: Purple
    • Flower colour: Pink - dark
    • Leaf colour: Green
    Malus
  • Japanese flowering cherry tree

    Beni-yutaka

    Beni-yutaka japanese flowering cherry tree
    Beni-yutaka is a pink blossom tree, which also features attractive red autumnal leaves.
    • 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
  • Birch

    Betula utilis jacquemontii

    Betula utilis jacquemontii birch
    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
    • Bark: White
    Betula utilis jacquemontii
  • Crab-apple trees

    Brandywine

    Brandywine crab-apple trees
    Brandywine is characterised by its unusual scented double pink flowers.
    • Fruit colour: Orange
    • Flower colour: Pink
    • Leaf colour: Green
    Malus x purpurea x ioensis
  • Maple

    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
  • Maple

    Brilliantissimum

    Brilliantissimum maple
    A distinctive dwarf sycamore, named for the colour of its stunning pink spring leaves.
    • Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
    • Leaf colour - autumn: Multiple tints
    Acer pseudoplatanus
  • Crab-apple trees

    Cardinal

    Cardinal crab-apple trees
    Also known as Princeton Cardinal, a bronze-leaved crab-apple with pink-red spring blossom and red fruitlets in the autumn.
    • Fruit colour: Red - dark
    • Flower colour: Pink - dark
    • Leaf colour: Bronze
    Malus hupehensis
  • Cercis

    Carolina SweetheartTM

    One of the most colourful of the Redbuds, Carolina Sweetheart features a mass of variegated white / pink / green heart-shaped leaves.
    • Growth habit: Spreading
    • Flower colour: Pink - dark
    • Leaf colour: Green
    • Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
    • Leaf colour: Pink-white-green variegated
    Cercis canadensis
  • Flowering cherry tree

    Catherine

    An unusual winter-flowering cherry, which also has superb autumn leaf colours.
    • Growth habit: Spreading
    • Flower colour: White
    • Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
    Prunus
  • Flowering pear

    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
    Pyrus calleryana
  • Flowering dogwood

    Cherokee Daybreak

    An upright spreading form of the American dogwood, with white blossom and variegated leaves.
    Cornus florida
  • Flowering dogwood

    Cherokee Princess

    Cherokee Princess is an American flowering dogwood, noted for its large white flower clusters.
    Cornus florida
  • Flowering dogwood

    Cherokee Sunset

    Sunset is a small ornamental American Dogwood, grown for its multi-coloured foliage.
    Cornus florida
  • Rowan

    Chinese Lace

    Chinese Lace rowan
    A neat attractive Rowan with bright green leaves and dusky pink berries.
    • Fruit colour: Red
    Sorbus
  • Japanese flowering cherry tree

    Chocolate Ice

    Chocolate Ice japanese flowering cherry tree
    Named after the copper-brown colour of the young leaves which contrast with the large white flowers.
    • 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
    Prunus
  • Crab-apple trees

    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
  • Flowering cherry tree

    Collingwood Ingram

    Collingwood Ingram flowering cherry tree
    An outstanding small flowering cherry, with deep pink blossom and attractive autumn colour.
    • Growth habit: Upright
    • Flower colour: Pink - dark
    • Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
    Prunus
  • Japanese flowering cherry tree

    Columnaris

    Columnaris japanese flowering cherry tree
    A more erect form of Sargent's cherry, and with more dramatic autumn colours.
    • Growth habit: Upright
    • Flower colour: Pink
    • Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
    • Flowering month: March
    • Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
    • Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
    Prunus sargentii
  • Rowan

    Copper Kettle

    Copper Kettle rowan
    Named for its attractive light copper-coloured fruitlets, Copper Kettle is easy to grow and takes up little space.
    • Fruit colour: Yellow
    • Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange
    Sorbus
  • Maple

    Crimson King

    Crimson King is a tree fast-growing maple with purple leaves which turn red in the autumn.
    • Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
    • Leaf colour - autumn: Yellow / Crimson
    Acer platanoides
  • Birch

    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
  • Maple

    Drummondii

    Drummondii maple
    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
  • Rowan

    Eastern Promise

    Eastern Promise rowan
    Features feathered leaves, and pink-red fruitlets.
    • Fruit colour: Pink
    Sorbus
  • Rowan

    Ember Glow

    Ember Glow rowan
    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
  • Whitebeam

    Emiel

    Emiel whitebeam
    Emiel has long leaves, with silvery-green undersides, turning orange in autumn.
    • Fruit colour: Red
    Sorbus folgneri
  • Silk tree

    Evy's Pride

    Evy's Pride silk tree
    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
  • Birch

    Fastigiata Joes®

    Fastigiata Joes birch
    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
  • Maple

    Field Maple

    The Field Maple makes a good specimen tree with attractive autumn colours, and is easy to grow.
    • Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
    • Leaf colour - autumn: Multiple tints
    Acer campestre
  • Cercis

    Forest Pansy

    Forest Pansy is a deservedly popular small multi-stemmed tree, with purple flowers borne on bare branches followed by multi-coloured leaves.
    • Growth habit: Spreading
    • 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
  • Flowering cherry tree

    Frilly FrockTM

    Frilly Frock flowering cherry tree
    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
  • Japanese maple trees

    Garnet

    Garnet japanese maple trees
    One of the "dissectum" group of Japanese acers, with feathery purple leaves.
    • Height after 10 years: Up to 1.5m / 5ft
    • Leaf colour - autumn: Multiple tints
    Acer palmatum
  • Maple

    George Forrest

    A popular snake-bark maple, very attractive striated bark, and golden yellow autumn colours.
    • Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
    • Leaf colour - autumn: Multiple tints
    • Leaf colour - autumn: Yellow
    Acer davidii
  • Rowan

    Gibbsii

    Gibbsii rowan
    Gibbsii grows with a neat spreading columnar form, sprinkled with clusters of bright red fruits in the autumn.
    • Fruit colour: Red
    Sorbus hybrida
  • Ginkgo

    Ginkgo biloba

    Ginkgo biloba ginkgo
    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
  • Rowan

    Glendoick SpireTM

    Glendoick Spire rowan
    A small compact rowan with an upright form, notable for its bright pink fruitlets and feathered leaves.
    • Fruit colour: Pink
    Sorbus aucuparia
  • Rowan

    Glendoick White Baby®

    Glendoick White Baby is a superb tree for autumn colour, with large bright white berries and bright red leaves.
    • Fruit colour: White
    Sorbus
  • Birch

    Golden Beauty

    Golden Beauty birch
    A gold-leaved silver birch, with an excellent upright form, white bark, and attractive autumn leaf colours.
    • Growth habit: Upright
    • Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
    • Bark: White
    Betula pendula
  • Cercis

    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
  • Birch

    Golden Fountain

    A nice example of the Golden Birch, with green-yellow leaves in the summer, turning golden yellow in the autumn.
    • Growth habit: Upright
    • Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
    • Bark: White
    Betula
  • Crab-apple trees

    Golden Glory

    A new British late-flowering crab-apple, with white blossom, russeted fruits, and strong autumn colours.
    • Fruit colour: Russet
    • Flower colour: White
    • Leaf colour: Green
    Malus yunnanensis
  • Crab-apple trees

    Guardsman

    Guardsman crab-apple trees
    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
  • Liquidambar

    Gum Ball

    A small tree with maple like leaves, and stunning autumn colours.
    • Height after 10 years: 1.5m-2.5m / 5ft-8ft
    Liquidambar styraciflua
  • Japanese flowering cherry tree

    Gyoiko

    Gyoiko japanese flowering cherry tree
    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
    Prunus
  • Flowering cherry tree

    Hally Jolivette

    Hally Jolivette flowering cherry tree
    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
    Prunus subhirtella
  • Japanese flowering cherry tree

    Hanagasa Pink Parasol

    Hanagasa Pink Parasol japanese flowering cherry tree
    A modern Japanese flowering cherry, also known as Pink Parasol, which features large double-flower pink blossom.
    • Growth habit: Spreading
    • 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
  • Cercis

    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
    • Leaf colour: Yellow-green
    • Flower colour: Purple
    • Flower colour: Mauve
    Cercis canadensis
  • Japanese flowering cherry tree

    Hokusai

    Hokusai japanese flowering cherry tree
    Hokusai is a traditional Japanese pink blossom cherry tree.
    • 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
    Prunus
  • Japanese flowering cherry tree

    Horinji

    Horinji japanese flowering cherry tree
    A small upright flowering cherry tree with large pink-tinted white blossom.
    • Flower colour: White
    • Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
    • Flowering month: April
    • Leaf colour - autumn: Green
    • Flower form: Semi-double flower (10-20 petals)
    • Growth habit: Upright-spreading
    Prunus
  • Japanese flowering cherry tree

    Ichiyo

    Ichiyo japanese flowering cherry tree
    An attractive medium-sized Japanese cherry blossom tree, with classic double shell pink flowers.
    • 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
    • Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
    Prunus
  • Flowering cherry tree

    Jacqueline

    Jacqueline flowering cherry tree
    Prunus Jacqueline is a new flowering cherry, featuring stunning pink blossom and superb autumn colours.
    • Flower colour: Pink - dark
    • Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
    • Growth habit: Upright-spreading
    Prunus x sargentii
  • Whitebeam

    John Bond

    An unusual species of Sorbus, the leaves are particularly attractive for their white undersides.
    • Fruit colour: Brown
    Sorbus hemsleyi
  • Rowan

    Joseph Rock

    Joseph Rock rowan
    A small rowan, with distinctive pale yellow fruitlets. Also one of the best for autumn colour.
    • Fruit colour: Yellow
    Sorbus
  • Japanese flowering cherry tree

    Kanzan

    Kanzan japanese flowering cherry tree
    Kanzan (or Kwanzan) is one of the most popular Japanese flowering cherries, well-suited to the UK climate.
    • 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)
    • Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
    Prunus
  • Rowan

    Kashmir rowan

    Kashmir rowan rowan
    An unusual rowan, with light pink blossom, and white fruitlets, which are larger than usual for rowans.
    • Fruit colour: White
    Sorbus cashmiriana
  • Flowering cherry tree

    Kobuku-zakura Powder Puff

    Kobuku-zakura Powder Puff flowering cherry tree
    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
    Prunus
  • Flowering cherry tree

    Kojo-no-mai

    Kojo-no-mai flowering cherry tree
    An excellent small compact blossom tree, featuring a mass of small white flowers, and good autumn colours.
    • Growth habit: Spreading
    • Flower colour: White
    • Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
    Prunus incisa
  • Amelanchier

    La Paloma

    La Paloma has exuberant white blossom, and coppery young leaves which turn orange and red in autumn,
    • Flower colour: White
    • Flowering month: April
    • Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
    Amelanchier
  • Cercis

    Lavender Twist®

    Also known as Covey, this impressive weeping Cercis features pale purple blossom followed by dense lavender green leaves.
    • Growth habit: Weeping
    • Leaf colour: Green
    • Height after 10 years: Up to 1.5m / 5ft
    • Flower colour: Mauve
    Cercis canadensis
  • Whitebeam

    Lemon Drop

    Lemon Drop is a small whitebeam tree, with the characteristic white undersides to its leaves. As the name suggests, the fruitlets are bright yellow.
    • Fruit colour: Yellow
    Sorbus folgneri
  • Rowan

    Leonard Messel

    Leonard Messel rowan
    A good all-round small rowan tree, with good autumn colours and cascades of pink fruitlets.
    • Fruit colour: Pink
    Sorbus
  • Liquidambar

    Liquidambar styraciflua

    An attractive sweet gum tree with excellent autumnal foliage colours.
    • Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
    Liquidambar styraciflua
  • Japanese flowering cherry tree

    Little Pink Perfection

    Little Pink Perfection japanese flowering cherry tree
    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
    • Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
    Prunus
  • Crab-apple trees

    Malus transitoria

    Malus transitoria crab-apple trees
    Malus transitoria is known as the Cut-leaf crab-apple, has a mass of small white flowers, and clusters of tiny yellow fruitlets.
    • Fruit colour: Yellow
    • Flower colour: White
    • Leaf colour: Green
    Malus transitoria
  • Rowan

    Matthew Ridley

    An upright-growing Mountain Ash with dense white flowers and clusters of orange-red autumn berries.
    • Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange
    Sorbus
  • Cercis

    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
  • Flowering cherry tree

    Mikinori

    Mikinori flowering cherry tree
    Mikinori is a classic early-flowering Fuji cherry tree, with red autumn leaf colours.
    • Growth habit: Spreading
    • Flower colour: White
    • Flower colour: Pink - light
    • Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
    Prunus incisa
  • Amelanchier

    Obelisk®

    Obelisk is an upright form of Juneberry, with white spring blossom, and attractive autumn colours.
    • Flower colour: White
    • Flowering month: May
    • Leaf colour - autumn: Multiple tints
    Amelanchier alnifolia
  • Maple

    October Glory®

    October Glory maple
    A well-named form of the North American Red Maple - the leaves turn a spectacular red in the autumn.
    • Height after 10 years: 5m-8m / 16ft-25ft
    • Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
    Acer rubrum
  • Flowering cherry tree

    Okame

    Okame flowering cherry tree
    Okame is a small hardy blossom tree featuring shell-pink single flowers and attractive autumn colours.
    • Flower colour: Pink
    • Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
    • Growth habit: Upright-spreading
    Prunus incisa x Prunus campanulata
  • Cercis

    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
    Cercis canadensis var. texensis
  • Rowan

    Olympic Flame

    Olympic Flame rowan
    An attractive small rowan tree, its orange/red autumn leaf-colours are amongst the best.
    • Fruit colour: Orange / Red
    Sorbus ulleungensis
  • Japanese maple trees

    Orange Dream

    Orange-tinged young leaves turn yellow over the summer, then gold in autumn.
    • Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
    • Leaf colour - autumn: Yellow
    Acer palmatum
  • Japanese maple trees

    Osakazuki

    Osakazuki japanese maple trees
    A classic Japanese maple, noted for its bright red autumn foliage.
    • Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
    • Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
    Acer palmatum
  • Flowering cherry tree

    Oshidori Princesse

    A small ornamental cherry with double white flowers, and autumn leaf colours.
    • Growth habit: Spreading
    • Flower colour: White
    • Flower form: Double flower (25-50 petals)
    Prunus incisa
  • Liquidambar

    Palo Alto

    This form of Liquidambar features long narrow lobed leaves and strong long-lived autumnal foliage colours.
    • Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
    Liquidambar styraciflua
  • Flowering cherry tree

    Pandora

    Pandora flowering cherry tree
    An excellent small flowering cherry, with pale pink blossom, and interesting leaf colour in both spring and autumn.
    • Growth habit: Upright
    • Flower colour: Pink - light
    • Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
    Prunus
  • Maple

    Paper-bark maple

    Paper-bark maple maple
    A medium-sized maple tree featuring characteristic peeling bark, and strong autumn colours.
    • Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
    • Leaf colour - autumn: Multiple tints
    Acer griseum
  • Rowan

    Pearls

    A small spreading rowan tree, named for its clusters of pearl-white berries.
    • Fruit colour: White
    Sorbus bissetii
  • Maple

    Phoenix

    One of the best Maples for winter colour, featuring striated bright red bark.
    • Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
    • Leaf colour - autumn: Yellow
    Acer x conspicuum
  • Robinia

    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
  • Rowan

    Pink Charm

    Pink Charm rowan
    A small rowan with a spreading habit, large feathered leaves, and bright pink berries.
    • Fruit colour: Pink
    Sorbus vilmorinii
  • Rowan

    Pink Ness

    Pink Ness rowan
    A very upright rowan tree, with pretty pink fruitlets.
    • Fruit colour: Pink
    Sorbus
  • Rowan

    Pink Pagoda

    Pink Pagoda rowan
    Pink Pagoda features clusters of pale pink fruits in late summer, and good autumn foliage colours.
    • Fruit colour: Pink
    Sorbus hupehensis
  • Japanese flowering cherry tree

    Pink Perfection

    Pink Perfection japanese flowering cherry tree
    The definitive pink blossom tree, offers a long-lasting display of pink double flowers.
    • 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
    • Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
    Prunus
  • Cercis

    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
    • Flower colour: Pink - dark
    • Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
    • Flower colour: Mauve
    Cercis canadensis
  • Flowering cherry tree

    Pink Shell

    Pink Shell flowering cherry tree
    This perfectly named flowering cherry features clusters of pink blossom hanging like pink shells.
    • Growth habit: Spreading
    • Flower colour: White
    • Flower colour: Pink - light
    • Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
    Prunus
  • Maple

    Princeton Gold®

    Princeton Gold maple
    Princeton Gold is a versatile fast-growing form of the Norway Maple, named for its golden-green leaves.
    • Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
    • Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Gold
    • Leaf colour - autumn: Yellow
    Acer platanoides
  • Hawthorn

    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
  • Flowering cherry tree

    Prunus litigiosa

    Prunus litigiosa flowering cherry tree
    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
  • Japanese flowering cherry tree

    Prunus sargentii

    Prunus sargentii japanese flowering cherry tree
    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
    Prunus sargentii
  • Amelanchier

    R J Hilton

    R J Hilton features large white flowers, copper-coloured young leaves, and attractive autumn leaf colours.
    • Flower colour: White
    • Flowering month: April
    • Leaf colour - autumn: Yellow / Crimson
    Amelanchier laevis
  • Amelanchier

    Rainbow Pillar®

    An upright bush-like Amelanchier with white blossom and good autumn colours.
    Amelanchier canadensis
  • Rowan

    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
  • Rowan

    Red Bird

    Red Bird rowan
    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
  • Maple

    Red Flamingo

    Red Flamingo maple
    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
  • Hazel bushes

    Red Majestic

    A red-leaved form of the contorted or twisted hazel.
    Corylus avellana
  • Maple

    Red Snakebark Maple

    Red Snakebark Maple 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
  • Amelanchier

    Robin Hill

    An upright Amelanchier with pink buds opening to snow white flowers, with good autumn colours.
    • Flower colour: White
    • Flower colour: Pink - light
    • Flowering month: April
    • Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
    Amelanchier x grandiflora
  • Hornbeam

    Rockhampton Red®

    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
  • Rowan

    Rosiness

    Rosiness rowan
    A small rowan tree with white-pink flowers and cascades of pink berries.
    • Fruit colour: Pink
    Sorbus rosea
  • Flowering cherry tree

    Royal Burgundy

    Royal Burgundy flowering cherry tree
    Royal Burgundy is a flowering cherry with striking red purple foliage combined with double pink flowers.
    • Flower colour: Pink - dark
    • Flower form: Double flower (25-50 petals)
    • Growth habit: Upright-spreading
    Prunus
  • Flowering cherry tree

    Royal Flame®

    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
  • Birch

    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
    • Bark: White
    Betula x populifolia
  • Maple

    Rubrum

    One of the best forms of the Cappadocian Maple, featuring a range of leaf colours from spring to autumn.
    • Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
    • Leaf colour - autumn: Yellow
    Acer cappadocicum
  • Cercis

    Ruby Falls

    Ruby Falls is a popular weeping Cercis with large bronze leaves, which emerge after the light purple spring blossom.
    • Growth habit: Weeping
    • Flower colour: Pink
    • Leaf colour: Green
    • Height after 10 years: 1.5m-2.5m / 5ft-8ft
    Cercis canadensis
  • Japanese maple trees

    Sango Kaku

    Sango Kaku japanese maple trees
    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
  • Maple

    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
    Acer rubrum
  • Crab-apple trees

    Scarlet Brandywine®

    A new crab-apple featuring stunning pink scented double-flowers and good autumn colour.
    • Fruit colour: Orange
    • Flower colour: Pink
    • Leaf colour: Green
    Malus x purpurea x ioensis
  • Japanese flowering cherry tree

    Shizuka - Fragrant Cloud

    Shizuka - Fragrant Cloud japanese flowering cherry tree
    A Japanese flowering cherry with large fragrant bright white blossom, and strong autumn colours.
    • 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
    Prunus
  • Japanese flowering cherry tree

    Shogetsu - Blushing Bride

    One of the loveliest of the white-blossom Japanese flowering cherries.
    • Growth habit: Spreading
    • 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
  • Flowering cherry tree

    Shosar

    Shosar flowering cherry tree
    An upright fastigate flowering cherry with pink blossom and good autumn leaf colours.
    • Growth habit: Upright
    • Flower colour: Pink - light
    • Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
    Prunus campanulata x incisa x sargentii
  • Birch

    Silver Birch

    Silver Birch 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
    • Bark: White
    Betula alba pendula
  • Maple

    Silver Maple

    A large stately tree featuring attractive cut leaves which turn yellow and gold in the autumn.
    • Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
    • Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Gold
    Acer saccharinum
  • Maple

    Simon-Louis Freres

    Simon-Louis Freres maple
    A popular slow-growing medium-sized sycamore tree with very attractive variegated leaves.
    • Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
    • Leaf colour - autumn: Multiple tints
    Acer pseudoplatanus
  • Liquidambar

    Slender Silhouette

    Slender Silhouette is a particularly columnar form of Liquidambar, with vibrant yellow and red autumn foliage colours.
    • Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
    Liquidambar styraciflua
  • Birch

    Snow Queen

    An attractive tree, and one of the best forms of the Himalayan birch, with a bright white stem.
    • Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
    • Growth habit: Upright-spreading
    • Bark: White
    Betula utilis
  • Amelanchier

    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
  • Rowan

    Sorbus helenae

    Sorbus helenae rowan
    A species of rowan featuring pink/white fruitlets and good autumn colours.
    • Fruit colour: White
    Sorbus helenae
  • Rowan

    Sorbus hupehensis

    Sorbus hupehensis rowan
    A classic rowan tree with pink berries and good autumn leaf colours.
    • Fruit colour: Pink
    Sorbus hupehensis
  • Rowan

    Sorbus japonica

    An upright rowan with large oval leaves and attractive autumn colours and large red fruitlets.
    • Fruit colour: Red
    Sorbus japonica
  • Rowan

    Sorbus pseudovilmorinii

    Sorbus pseudovilmorinii rowan
    Similar characteristics to Sorbus vilmorinii, not quite as vigorous, but heavier fruiting.
    • Fruit colour: Pink
    • Fruit colour: White
    Sorbus pseudovilmorinii
  • Rowan

    Sorbus sargentiana

    Sorbus sargentiana rowan
    A broad spreading rowan with bright orange fruitlets and autumn foliage.
    • Fruit colour: Orange / Red
    Sorbus sargentiana
  • Rowan

    Sorbus scalaris

    Sorbus scalaris rowan
    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
  • Rowan

    Sorbus vilmorinii

    Sorbus vilmorinii rowan
    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.
    • Fruit colour: Pink
    • Fruit colour: White
    Sorbus vilmorinii
  • Whitebeam

    Sorbus wardii

    Sorbus wardii whitebeam
    A little-known Whitebeam from the Himalayas, featuring large silver-green leaves and yellow-orange berries.
    • Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange
    Sorbus wardii
  • Flowering cherry tree

    Spire

    Spire flowering cherry tree
    A compact upright blossom tree with pale pink flowers, and orange-red autumn foliage colours.
    • Growth habit: Upright
    • Flower colour: Pink - light
    • Flower form: Semi-double flower (10-20 petals)
    Prunus
  • Flowering cherry tree

    Spring Snow

    A Japanese flowering cherry with double-flowered white blossom borne on bare branches, followed by coppery-leaves.
    • Growth habit: Spreading
    • Flower colour: White
    • Flower form: Double flower (25-50 petals)
    Prunus
  • Liquidambar

    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
  • Maple

    Sugar Maple

    Sugar Maple 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
  • Silk tree

    Summer Chocolate

    Summer Chocolate silk tree
    A popular form of the Silk Tree with burgundy foliage and scented cream powder puff blooms.
    • Flower colour: Pink
    • Leaf colour: Bronze
    • Flowering month: July
    • Flowering month: August
    Albizia julibrissin
  • Maple

    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
  • Rowan

    Sunshine

    Sunshine rowan
    A small rowan tree with an upright form and golden yellow clusters of fruits, and strong autumn colours.
    • Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange
    Sorbus
  • Lilac

    Sweetheart

    Sweetheart features large clusters of traditional lilac-coloured flowers.
    • Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
    • Flower colour: Mauve
    Syringa vulgaris
  • Cercis

    Texas White

    An unusual Cercis featuring large white flowers, followed by green leaves which turn yellow in autumn.
    • Growth habit: Spreading
    • 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
  • Flowering cherry tree

    The Bride

    The Bride flowering cherry tree
    A small ornamental cherry with large single white flowers.
    • Growth habit: Spreading
    • Flower colour: White
    • Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
    Prunus
  • Cercis

    The Rising SunTM

    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
    • Flower colour: Mauve
    Cercis canadensis
  • Flowering cherry tree

    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
    Prunus
  • Birch

    Tristis

    A graceful upright silver birch with pendulous shoots cascading from its branches.
    • Growth habit: Upright
    • Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
    • Bark: White
    Betula pendula
  • Japanese maple trees

    Trompenburg

    Trompenburg japanese maple trees
    An upright tree-like Acer with deeply cut purple leaves which turn fiery red in the autumn.
    • Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
    • Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
    Acer palmatum
  • Japanese flowering cherry tree

    Ukon

    Ukon japanese flowering cherry tree
    A very attractive Japanese blossom tree, with unique cream-coloured flowers.
    • Growth habit: Spreading
    • 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
  • Cercis

    Vanilla Twist®

    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
  • Flowering cherry tree

    Weeping Yoshino

    Weeping Yoshino flowering cherry tree
    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
  • Flowering dogwood

    White Fountain

    This flowering dogwood is characterised by its large white bracts, and attractive red autumn leaf colours.
    Cornus kousa
  • Rowan

    Wisley Gold

    Wisley Gold rowan
    A good-sized yellow-fruiting mountain ash, with a spreading form.
    • Fruit colour: Yellow
    • Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange
    Sorbus
  • Liquidambar

    Worplesdon

    An elegant upright conical tree with excellent orange and gold autumn leaf colours.
    • Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
    Liquidambar styraciflua
  • Flowering cherry tree

    Yamadei

    A small shrub-like ornamental cherry with clusters of white bell-shaped flowers and orange autumn leaf colours.
    • Flower colour: White
    • Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
    • Growth habit: Upright-spreading
    Prunus incisa
  • Flowering cherry tree

    Yoshino

    Yoshino flowering cherry tree
    The Yoshino cherry - a graceful wide-spreading flowering cherry with large white blossom, which is the national flower of Japan.
    • Growth habit: Spreading
    • Flower colour: White
    • Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
    Prunus x yedoensis
  • Birch

    Youngii

    A weeping silver birch, the branches trail to the ground.
    • Growth habit: Weeping
    • Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
    • Bark: White
    Betula pendula