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Choose from over 280 flowering cherries, crab apples, rowans and other ornamental trees.

List of trees for wildlife in the garden

A selection of trees that are attractive to wildlife or pollinating insects.

Varieties list

Crab-apple trees
Admiration
Malus halliana
Also known as Malus Adirondack. A dwarf upright crab-apple with masses of light-pink / white flowers.
- Fruit colour: Red
- Flower colour: Pink - light
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
Flowering cherry tree
Albertii
Prunus padus
Albertii is a compact flowering cherry, with prolific white blossom.
- Flower colour: White
- Growth habit: Columnar / Fastigiate
- Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
- Flowering season: Late
Flowering cherry tree
Amber Beauty
Prunus maackii
Amber Beauty is a form of the Manchurian Cherry, notable for dense clusters of white blossom.
- Flower colour: White
- Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
- Growth habit: Upright-spreading
- Flowering season: Mid-season
Rowan
Amber Light
Sorbus
A typical Mountain Ash or Rowan, with particularly persistent red berries.
- Fruit colour: Orange
Amelanchier
Amelanchier lamarckii
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
Fruiting ornamental
Arbutus unedo
Arbutus unedo
A small evergreen ornamental tree which produces edible fruitlets - commonly known as the Strawberry Tree.
Flowering cherry tree
Ascendens Rosea
Prunus pendula
This beautiful flowering cherry has a graceful upright habit and white/pink blossom.
- Growth habit: Upright
- Flower colour: Pink - light
- Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
- Flowering season: Mid-season
Rowan
Asplenifolia
Sorbus aucuparia
The Cut-leaf Rowan, an excellent form of the native Mountain Ash, orange-red berries, and highly feathered leaves.
- Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Rowan
Autumn Spire®
Sorbus aucuparia
Autumn Spire (Flanrock) is a columnar rowan with yellow fruitlets and excellent autumn colour.
- Fruit colour: Yellow
Flowering cherry tree
Autumnalis
Prunus x subhirtella
A Japanese flowering cherry with white blossom. Flowering may begin around Christmas and continue to spring in some seasons.
- Growth habit: Spreading
- Flower colour: White
- Flower form: Semi-double flower (10-20 petals)
- Flowering season: Early
Flowering cherry tree
Autumnalis Rosea
Prunus x subhirtella
A Japanese flowering cherry with light pink blossom, can sometimes flower through the whole winter.
- Growth habit: Spreading
- Flower colour: Pink - light
- Flower form: Semi-double flower (10-20 petals)
- Flowering season: Early
Amelanchier
Ballerina
Amelanchier x grandiflora
A popular tree-like Amelanchier with white blossom and good autumn leaf colours.
- Flower colour: White
- Flowering month: April
- Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
Crab-apple trees
Barbara
Malus
Malus Barbara has dark pink blossom and small purple fruitlets.
- Fruit colour: Purple
- Flower colour: Pink - dark
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
Flowering cherry tree
Beni-chidori
Prunus mume
This form of the Japanese apricot has scented pink blossom which appears early in the spring.
- Flower colour: Pink - dark
- Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
- Growth habit: Upright-spreading
- Flowering season: Early
Hawthorn
Big Golden Star
Crataegus pinnatifida
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
Crab-apple trees
Brandywine
Malus x purpurea x ioensis
A new crab-apple featuring stunning pink scented double-flowers and good autumn colour.
- Fruit colour: Orange
- Flower colour: Pink
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
Crab-apple trees
Butterball
Malus
Malus Butterball is named for its bright yellow fruits, which are also good for crab apple jelly.
- Fruit colour: Yellow
- Flower colour: White
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
Crab-apple trees
Candymint
Malus sargentii
A pretty and graceful spreading tree with a mass of pink / white flowers, and small red fruits.
- Fruit colour: Red - dark
- Flower colour: Pink - light
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
Crab-apple trees
Cardinal
Malus hupehensis
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 - summer: Bronze
Evergreen
Cedrus libani
Cedrus libani
The cedar of Lebanon grows slowly into a majestic large tree, suitable for parks and open landscapes.
Flowering pear
Chanticleer
Pyrus calleryana
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
Flowering dogwood
Cherokee Daybreak
Cornus florida
An upright spreading form of the American dogwood, with white blossom and variegated leaves.
Flowering dogwood
Cherokee Princess
Cornus florida
Cherokee Princess is an American flowering dogwood, noted for its large white flower clusters.
Rowan
Chinese Lace
Sorbus
A neat attractive Rowan with bright green leaves and dusky pink berries.
- Fruit colour: Red
Rowan
Common Rowan
Sorbus aucuparia
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
Crab-apple trees
Comtesse de Paris
Malus
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.
- Fruit colour: Yellow
- Flower colour: White
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
Rowan
Copper Kettle
Sorbus
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
Crab-apple trees
Coralburst®
Malus
Malus Coralburst is a naturally compact crab-apple with a superb blossom display and small persistent yellow-orange fruitlets.
- Fruit colour: Bronze
- Flower colour: Pink - dark
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
Flowering dogwood
Cornelian cherry
Cornus mas
An unusual tree, with small yellow flowers in mid-winter, red fruitlets in summer, and tinted autumn foliage.
Flowering dogwood
Cornus kousa chinensis
Cornus kousa chinensis
This is the Chinese Dogwood, and features a mass of large white blossom, followed by attractive autumn leaf colours.
Crab-apple trees
Crimson Cascade
Malus x purpurea
A new weeping crab-apple with dusky pink blossom and small dark red fruitlets.
- Fruit colour: Red - dark
- Flower colour: Crimson
- Leaf colour - summer: Bronze
Hawthorn
Crimson Cloud
Crataegus laevigata
Crimson Cloud has dark red flowers with white centres.
- Fruit colour: Red
- Flower colour: Red - dark
- Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
- Flowering month: May
Rowan
Croft Coral
Sorbus aucuparia
Croft Coral is a small rowan tree but the fruits are an orange coral colour rather than the usual red,
- Fruit colour: Orange
Crab-apple trees
Directeur Moerlands Profusion Improved
Malus x moerlandsii
Directeur Moerlands (also known as Profusion Improved) 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 - summer: Bronze
Crab-apple trees
Donald Wyman
Malus
Donald Wyman is a classic white-flowered crab-apple, with very small red fruits, which persist into mid-winter.
- Fruit colour: Red
- Flower colour: White
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
Rowan
Eastern Promise
Sorbus
Features feathered leaves, and pink-red fruitlets.
- Fruit colour: Pink
Rowan
Ember Glow
Sorbus aucuparia
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
Whitebeam
Emiel
Sorbus folgneri
Emiel has long leaves, with silvery-green undersides, turning orange in autumn.
- Fruit colour: Red
Crab-apple trees
Evereste
Malus
Malus Evereste is a popular traditional crab-apple with masses of white blossom, then red-yellow fruits.
- Fruit colour: Orange / Red
- Flower colour: White
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
Rowan
Fingerprint®
Sorbus aucuparia
A particularly upright form of the Mountain Ash, and one of the most disease-resistant.
- Fruit colour: Red
Robinia
Frisia
Robinia pseudoacacia
Frisia is a fast-growing Robinia or false acacia tree, featuring attractive golden-green leaves over the summer, and scented flowers.
- Height after 10 years: 3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
Japanese flowering cherry tree
Fugenzo
Prunus
A traditional double-flowered Japanese flowering cherry.
- Growth habit: Spreading
- 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)
Rowan
Gibbsii
Sorbus hybrida
Gibbsii grows with a neat spreading columnar form, sprinkled with clusters of bright red fruits in the autumn.
- Fruit colour: Red
Rowan
Glendoick SpireTM
Sorbus aucuparia
A small compact rowan with an upright form, notable for its bright pink fruitlets and feathered leaves.
- Fruit colour: Pink
Rowan
Glendoick White Baby®
Sorbus
Glendoick White Baby is a superb tree for autumn colour, with large bright white berries and bright red leaves.
- Fruit colour: White
Crab-apple trees
Golden Gem
Malus
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 - summer: Green
Crab-apple trees
Golden Hornet
Malus x zumi
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 - summer: Green
Crab-apple trees
Gorgeous
Malus
Malus Gorgeous has pink/white blossom and spherical cherry-like red fruits which are good for jelly.
- Fruit colour: Red
- Flower colour: Pink - light
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
Crab-apple trees
Guardsman
Malus trilobata
A very upright columnar species of crab-apple, with white flowers and small green fruitlets.
- Fruit colour: Green
- Flower colour: White
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
Crab-apple trees
Harry Baker
Malus
Malus Harry Baker is a popular crab-apple with deep pink flowers and dark red fruits which are very good for crab-apple jelly.
- Fruit colour: Red
- Flower colour: Crimson
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
Japanese flowering cherry tree
Hokusai
Prunus
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
Crab-apple trees
Indian Magic
Malus
An excellent all-round crab apple, with attractive bronze leaves, dusky pink blossom, and small persistent red fruits.
- Fruit colour: Red
- Flower colour: Pink
- Leaf colour - summer: Bronze
Crab-apple trees
Jelly King®
Malus
White blossom followed by large orange-red fruits which are ideal for making crab-apple jelly.
- Fruit colour: Orange / Red
- Flower colour: White
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
Whitebeam
John Bond
Sorbus hemsleyi
An unusual species of Sorbus, the leaves are particularly attractive for their white undersides.
- Fruit colour: Brown
Crab-apple trees
John Downie
Malus
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 - summer: Green
Whitebeam
John Mitchell
Sorbus x aria
John Mitchell is a popular whitebeam, notable for its large white-green leaves.
- Fruit colour: Brown
Rowan
Joseph Rock
Sorbus
A small rowan, with distinctive pale yellow fruitlets. Also one of the best for autumn colour.
- Fruit colour: Yellow
Rowan
Kashmir rowan
Sorbus cashmiriana
An unusual rowan, with light pink blossom, and white fruitlets, which are larger than usual for rowans.
- Fruit colour: White
Japanese flowering cherry tree
Kiku-shidare-zakura
Prunus
This is the classic Japanese weeping pink cherry blossom tree (sometimes known as Cheal's Weeping Cherry).
- Growth habit: Weeping
- Flower colour: Pink - dark
- Flowering month: April
- Height after 10 years: 1.5m-2.5m / 5ft-8ft
- Leaf colour - autumn: Multiple tints
- Flower form: Chrysanthemum flower (100+ petals)
Flowering cherry tree
Kobuku-zakura Powder Puff
Prunus
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
- Flowering season: Early
Flowering cherry tree
Kojo-no-mai
Prunus incisa
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)
- Flowering season: Mid-season
Crab-apple trees
Laura
Malus
Malus Laura is a very upright dwarf crab-apple, with bronze leaves, crimson blossom and maroon fruitlets.
- Flower colour: Crimson
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
Whitebeam
Lemon Drop
Sorbus folgneri
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
Rowan
Leonard Messel
Sorbus
A good all-round small rowan tree, with good autumn colours and cascades of pink fruitlets.
- Fruit colour: Pink
Japanese flowering cherry tree
Little Pink Perfection
Prunus
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
Crab-apple trees
Louisa
Malus
Malus Louisa is a pretty weeping crab apple with light pink blossom and small yellow fruitlets.
- Fruit colour: Orange
- Flower colour: Pink - light
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
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Lutescens
Sorbus aria
An excellent large 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.
From £23.95 to £47.95buy
- Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Crab-apple trees
Malus baccata
Malus baccata
The Siberian crab-apple, noted for its exceptional cold-hardiness, disease-resistance, attractive blossom and clusters of cherry-like fruitlets in autumn,
- Fruit colour: Orange / Red
- Flower colour: White
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
Crab-apple trees
Malus floribunda
Malus floribunda
Malus floribunda is also known as the Japanese Crab. Pink / white blossom then red / yellow fruits.
- Fruit colour: Yellow / Red
- Flower colour: White
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
Crab-apple trees
Malus hupehensis
Malus hupehensis
A traditional garden crab-apple from China, with white blossom and small red-tinged fruitlets, a good choice as a specimen tree.
- Fruit colour: Green / Red
- Flower colour: White
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
Crab-apple trees
Malus transitoria
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.
- Fruit colour: Yellow
- Flower colour: White
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
Rowan
Matthew Ridley
Sorbus
An upright-growing Mountain Ash with dense white flowers and clusters of orange-red autumn berries.
- Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange
Flowering cherry tree
Myrtifolia
Prunus lusitanica
The Portuguese Laurel forms a small spreading tree, easy to grow, and ideal for patios.
- Growth habit: Spreading
- Flower colour: White
- Flowering season: Late
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NUVAR® Marble
Malus
A modern English crab-apple, with large fruits, ideal for early-season crab-apple jelly.
From £19.95 to £36.45buy
- Fruit colour: Orange / Red
- Flower colour: White
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
Rowan
Olympic Flame
Sorbus ulleungensis
An attractive small rowan tree, its orange/red autumn leaf-colours are amongst the best.
- Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Flowering cherry tree
Pandora
Prunus
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)
- Flowering season: Mid-season
Hawthorn
Paul's Scarlet
Crataegus laevigata
A popular small hawthorn with distinctive dark pink blossom with white centres.
- Fruit colour: Red
- Flower colour: Pink - dark
- Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
- Flowering month: May
Rowan
Pink Charm
Sorbus vilmorinii
A small rowan with a spreading habit, large feathered leaves, and bright pink berries.
- Fruit colour: Pink
Crab-apple trees
Pink Glow
Malus baccata
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 - summer: Green
Rowan
Pink Ness
Sorbus
A very upright rowan tree, with pretty pink fruitlets.
- Fruit colour: Pink
Rowan
Pink Pagoda
Sorbus hupehensis
Pink Pagoda features clusters of pale pink fruits in late summer, and good autumn foliage colours.
- Fruit colour: Pink
Rowan
Pink Pearl
Sorbus
A small upright rowan tree with clusters of pink-flecked white fruitlets.
- Fruit colour: Pink
- Fruit colour: White
Crab-apple trees
Pink Perfection
Malus
Malus Pink Perfection is a superb crab-apple with double pink scented flowers.
- Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange
- Flower colour: Pink
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
Flowering cherry tree
Plena
Prunus avium
A form of the native English wild cherry, featuring which has double white flowers rather than single flowers.
- Growth habit: Upright
- Flower colour: White
- Flower form: Double flower (25-50 petals)
- Flowering season: Late
Hawthorn
Plena
Crataegus laevigata
A compact hawthorn which features double white flowers.
- Flower colour: White
- Flowering month: May
- Height after 10 years: 1.5m-2.5m / 5ft-8ft
Crab-apple trees
Prairie Fire®
Malus
Malus Prairie Fire is a medium-size upright crab-apple tree, notable for its dark pink flowers.
- Fruit colour: Red
- Flower colour: Pink - dark
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
Crab-apple trees
Professor Sprenger
Malus x zumi
A well-proportioned crab-apple with profuse white blossom, and golden-orange fruitlets in autumn.
- Fruit colour: Orange
- Flower colour: White
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
Hawthorn
Prunifolia Splendens
Crataegus persimilis
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
Flowering cherry tree
Prunus avium
Prunus avium
The native "Gean" or "Mazzard" cherry, makes an attractive woodland tree.
- Growth habit: Upright
- Flower colour: White
- Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
- Flowering season: Mid-season
Crab-apple trees
Purpurea Evelyn
Malus ioensis
Malus Purpurea Evelyn is a purple-leaved form of the Prairie crab.
- Fruit colour: Green / Yellow
- Flower colour: Pink - dark
- Leaf colour - summer: Dark purple
Amelanchier
Rainbow Pillar®
Amelanchier canadensis
An upright bush-like Amelanchier with white blossom and good autumn colours.
Rowan
Ravensbill
Sorbus
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
Rowan
Red Bird
Sorbus alnifolia
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
Crab-apple trees
Red Obelisk
Malus
Malus Red Obelisk is a compact upright crab-apple with white flowers, purple / green leaves, and red fruits.
- Fruit colour: Red
- Flower colour: White
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
Crab-apple trees
Red Sentinel
Malus x robusta
A deservedly popular crab-apple, Malus Red Sentinel has classic white apple blossom and a profusion of tiny scarlet persistent fruits.
- Fruit colour: Red
- Flower colour: White
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
Rowan
Rose Queen
Sorbus
An unusual small rowan tree, featuring clusters of dark-pink very persistent berries.
- Fruit colour: Crimson
Hawthorn
Rosea Flore Pleno
Crataegus laevigata
A popular ornamental hawthorn, featuring pink double flowers with cream centres.
- Flower colour: Pink
- Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
- Flowering month: May
Crab-apple trees
Rosehip
Malus
Malus Rosehip features white blossom and large rosehip-shaped red fruits.
- Fruit colour: Orange / Red
- Flower colour: White
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
Rowan
Rosiness
Sorbus rosea
A small rowan tree with white-pink flowers and cascades of pink berries.
- Fruit colour: Pink
Crab-apple trees
Royal Beauty
Malus
Royal Beauty is a compact weeping crab apple with crimson blossom and small crimson berry-like fruitlets.
- Fruit colour: Red - dark
- Flower colour: Crimson
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
Crab-apple trees
Royalty
Malus pumila
Malus Royalty has bright purple-red blossom, dark green-bronze leaves, and dark red fruitlets.
- Fruit colour: Red - dark
- Flower colour: Red - dark
- Leaf colour - summer: Bronze
Crab-apple trees
Rudolph
Malus
Malus Rudoph features very large single deep pink flowers, and small dark purple fruits.
- Fruit colour: Purple
- Flower colour: Pink
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
Crab-apple trees
Scarlett
Malus toringo
Malus toringo Scarlett is an ornamental crab apple with bronze leaves, dusky pink blossom, and dark red fruitlets.
- Fruit colour: Purple
- Flower colour: Pink
- Leaf colour - summer: Bronze
Lilac
Sensation
Syringa vulgaris
Sensation is an unusual lilac with large single purple / white flowers.
- Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
- Flower colour: Mauve
Japanese flowering cherry tree
Shirofugen
Prunus serrulata
Shirofugen is a traditional Japanese flowering cherry with large double-white flowers.
- Growth habit: Spreading
- 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)
Flowering pear
Silver Sail
Pyrus elaeagnifolia
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
Amelanchier
Snowflakes
Amelanchier laevis
A popular Amelanchier, featuring large single flowers, coppery foliage, and good autumn colours.
- Flower colour: White
- Flowering month: April
- Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
Whitebeam
Sorbus hedlundii
Sorbus hedlundii
A little-known whitebeam species, it features the classic downy grey-green leaves, and russeted fruitlets in autumn.
- Fruit colour: Brown
Rowan
Sorbus helenae
Sorbus helenae
A species of rowan featuring pink/white fruitlets and good autumn colours.
- Fruit colour: White
Rowan
Sorbus hupehensis
Sorbus hupehensis
A classic rowan tree with pink berries and good autumn leaf colours.
- Fruit colour: Pink
Rowan
Sorbus japonica
Sorbus japonica
An upright rowan with large oval leaves and attractive autumn colours and large red fruitlets.
- Fruit colour: Red
Rowan
Sorbus pseudovilmorinii
Sorbus pseudovilmorinii
Similar characteristics to Sorbus vilmorinii, not quite as vigorous, but heavier fruiting.
- Fruit colour: Pink
- Fruit colour: White
Rowan
Sorbus sargentiana
Sorbus sargentiana
A broad spreading rowan with bright orange fruitlets and autumn foliage.
- Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Rowan
Sorbus scalaris
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
Rowan
Sorbus vilmorinii
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.
- Fruit colour: Pink
- Fruit colour: White
Whitebeam
Sorbus wardii
Sorbus wardii
A little-known Whitebeam from the Himalayas, featuring large silver-green leaves and yellow-orange berries.
- Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange
Crab-apple trees
Sun Rival
Malus
Malus Sun Rival is a popular weeping crab-apple, with pale pink blossom and small red berry-like fruitlets.
- Fruit colour: Red
- Flower colour: Pink - light
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
Rowan
Sunshine
Sorbus
A small rowan tree with an upright form and golden yellow clusters of fruits, and strong autumn colours.
- Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange
Crab-apple trees
Tina
Malus sargentii
Malus Tina is a small spreading crab-apple, useful as a patio tree.
- Fruit colour: Red
- Flower colour: White
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
Flowering cherry tree
Trailblazer
Prunus cerasifera
An ornamental plum with white blossom and purple leaves, usually also produces dark red cherry-plums fruits, which can be eaten or cooked.
- Flower colour: White
- Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
- Flowering season: Mid-season
Japanese flowering cherry tree
Ukon
Prunus
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)
Crab-apple trees
Wedding Bouquet
Malus brevipes
Malus Wedding Bouquet features ivory-white blossom and tiny red berry-like fruitlets.
- Fruit colour: Red - dark
- Flower colour: White
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
Flowering cherry tree
Weeping Yoshino
Prunus x yedoensis pendula
A weeping form of the traditional Japanese Yoshino flowing cherry.
- Growth habit: Weeping
- Flower colour: White
- Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
- Flowering season: Early
Crab-apple trees
White Star
Malus
A modern English crab-apple with white star-like flowers followed by attractive russeted fruitlets.
- Fruit colour: Russet
- Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange
- Flower colour: White
- Leaf colour - summer: Green
Rowan
Wild Service Tree
Sorbus torminalis
A large traditional Rowan tree, native to England.
- Fruit colour: Brown
Rowan
Wisley Gold
Sorbus
A good-sized yellow-fruiting mountain ash, with a spreading form.
- Fruit colour: Yellow
- Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange
Flowering cherry tree
Yoshino
Prunus x yedoensis
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)