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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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Japanese maple trees
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
Maple
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
Maple
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
Horse Chestnut trees
Aesculus hippocastanum
This is the Horse Chestnut tree, well-known as the source of conkers, but also one of the most impressive and largest of flowering trees.
Aesculus hippocastanum
Cercis
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
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
Rowan
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
Maple
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
Maple
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
Rowan
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
Cercis
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
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
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Amelanchier x grandiflora
Rowan
Beissneri
Beissneri is a compact form of the Common Rowan, with red berries and good autumn colours.
- Fruit colour: Red
Sorbus aucuparia
Crab-apple trees
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
Japanese flowering cherry
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
Birch
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
Ginkgo
Blagon
A slow-growing attractive columnar Ginkgo with yellow autumnal leaves
- Growth habit: Upright
- Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Ginkgo biloba
Cercis
Bodnant
Bodnant is a particularly attractive form of Cercis siliquastrum, featuring masses of pink purple flowers in late spring.
- 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 siliquastrum
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
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
Crab-apple trees
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
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 / 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
Hornbeam
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
Flowering cherry tree
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
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
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Pyrus calleryana
Flowering dogwood
Cherokee Daybreak
An upright spreading form of the American dogwood, with white blossom and variegated leaves.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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
A neat attractive Rowan with bright green leaves and dusky pink berries.
- Fruit colour: Red
Sorbus
Japanese flowering cherry
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
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
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
Japanese flowering cherry
Columnaris
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
Beech
Common Beech
The Common Beech is a large attractive deciduous tree with good autumn leaf colours.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fagus sylvatica
Rowan
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
Rowan
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
Flowering dogwood
Cornus florida
This is the American Flowering Dogwood, featuring bright white flowers and strong autumn colours.
Cornus florida
Hawthorn
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
Maple
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
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
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
Features feathered leaves, and pink-red fruitlets.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Fruit colour: Pink
Sorbus
Crab-apple trees
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
Rowan
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
Rowan
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
Whitebeam
Emiel
Emiel has long leaves, with silvery-green undersides, turning orange in autumn.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Fruit colour: Red
Sorbus folgneri
Cercis
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
Albizia tree
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
Birch
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
Maple
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
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.
- 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
Flowering cherry tree
Frilly FrockTM
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
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
Maple
George Forrest
A popular snake-bark maple, very attractive striated bark, and golden yellow autumn colours.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
- Leaf colour - autumn: Multiple tints
- Leaf colour - autumn: Yellow
Acer davidii
Rowan
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
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
Hawthorn
Glastonbury Thorn
The Glastonbury Thorn, Crataegus Biflora, is a form of the common hawthorn found in the area around Glastonbury, reputed to have been planted by Joseph of Arimathea.
- Fruit colour: Red - dark
- Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
- Flowering month: January
- Flowering month: April
- Flower colour: Cream
- Flowering month: December
Crataegus monogyna
Rowan
Glendoick SpireTM
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
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 pendula
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
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
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
Flowering cherry tree
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
Japanese flowering cherry
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
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 / Vase
- Leaf colour: Yellow-green
- Flower colour: Purple
- Flower colour: Mauve
Cercis canadensis
Japanese flowering cherry
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
Japanese flowering cherry
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
Japanese flowering cherry
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
Flowering cherry tree
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
Whitebeam
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
Rowan
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
Japanese flowering cherry
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
Rowan
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
Flowering cherry tree
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
Amelanchier
La Paloma
La Paloma has exuberant white blossom, and coppery young leaves which turn orange and red in autumn,
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- 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
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
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
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
Crab-apple trees
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
Crab-apple trees
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
Rowan
Matthew Ridley
An upright-growing Mountain Ash with dense white flowers and clusters of orange-red autumn berries.
- Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange
Sorbus
Birch
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
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 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
Birch
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
Amelanchier
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
Maple
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
Flowering cherry tree
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
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 / Vase
Cercis canadensis var. texensis
Rowan
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
Japanese maple trees
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
Japanese maple trees
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
Flowering cherry tree
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
Liquidambar
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
Flowering cherry tree
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
Maple
Paper-bark maple
The Paper-bark maple tree features characteristic peeling bark, and strong autumn colours.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- 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
A small rowan with a spreading habit, large feathered leaves, and bright pink berries.
- Fruit colour: Pink
Sorbus vilmorinii
Rowan
Pink Ness
A very upright rowan tree, with pretty pink fruitlets.
- Fruit colour: Pink
Sorbus
Rowan
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
Japanese flowering cherry
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
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 / Flat-topped
- Flower colour: Pink - dark
- Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
- Flower colour: Mauve
Cercis canadensis
Flowering cherry tree
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
Flowering cherry tree
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
Maple
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
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
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
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
Beech
Purple Fountain
Purple Fountain is a popular form of the Weeping Beech featuring dark purple bronze leaves.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fagus sylvatica
Beech
Purpurea
Purpurea is an impressive purple-leaved form of the Common Beech, sometimes known as the Purple Beech or Copper Beech.
Fagus sylvatica
Amelanchier
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
Amelanchier
Rainbow Pillar®
An upright columnar 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 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
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
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.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- 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
Rose Queen
An unusual small rowan tree, featuring clusters of dark-pink red very persistent berries.
- Fruit colour: Red
- Fruit colour: Red - dark
Sorbus
Rowan
Rosiness
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 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
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 / Vase
- 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.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- 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.
- 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
Japanese maple trees
Sango Kaku
Also known as the Coral Bark maple, Sango Kaku features coral red stems which make a strong winter feature.
- Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
- Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Gold
Acer palmatum
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
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
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
- Flower colour: Pink - dark
- Leaf colour: Green
Malus x purpurea x ioensis
Rowan
Sheerwater Seedling
A compact upright form of the Common Rowan, notable for its abundant fruiting.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Fruit colour: Red
Sorbus aucuparia
Japanese flowering cherry
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
Japanese flowering cherry
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
Flowering cherry tree
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
Birch
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
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
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Acer saccharinum
Maple
Simon-Louis Freres
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.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- 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 / Vase
- 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
Flowering cherry tree
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
Rowan
Sorbus helenae
A species of rowan featuring pink/white fruitlets and good autumn colours.
- Fruit colour: White
Sorbus helenae
Rowan
Sorbus hupehensis
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
Similar characteristics to Sorbus vilmorinii, not quite as vigorous, but heavier fruiting.
- Fruit colour: Pink
- Fruit colour: White
Sorbus pseudovilmorinii
Rowan
Sorbus sargentiana
A broad spreading rowan with bright orange fruitlets and autumn foliage.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Sorbus sargentiana
Rowan
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
Rowan
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
Whitebeam
Sorbus wardii
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
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
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 / Flat-topped
- 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
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
Albizia tree
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
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
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 / 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
Flowering cherry tree
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
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 / Vase
- 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 / Vase
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
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
Japanese flowering cherry
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
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
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
Birch
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
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
A good-sized yellow-fruiting mountain ash, with a spreading form.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Fruit colour: Yellow
- Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange
Sorbus
Liquidambar
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
Flowering cherry tree
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
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
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Betula pendula