Flowering Cherry
Prunus species and hybrids. (ROSACEAE).
Planting and Growing Flowering Cherry Trees
You’ll find everything you need to know to plant and grow flowering cherry trees in the accompanying table’s tabs:
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- Flowers, foliage, and fruit of flowering cherry trees
- Growing conditions for flowering cherry
- When to plant flowering cherry
- How to plant flowering cherry
- How to prune flowering cherry
- Watering, fertilizing, and care of flowering cherry
- Landscape uses of flowering cherry
- Pest and disease control for flowering cherry
Growing Flowering Cherry Trees
About 5 species and hundreds of hybrids of medium-growing, short-lived, upright, spreading, deciduous ornamental trees, 25–35 ft. (7.5–11 m) tall and wide, with smooth, green, veined leaves, to 5 in. (13 cm) long, turning yellow in autumn.
Flowering Cherry Planting and Care Guide
Flowers and Fruit
Many showy, crepelike, pink, rose, white, clustered flowers, 1–2 in. (25–50 mm) wide, in spring, form cherries in late spring or are fruitless.
Best Climates
U.S.D.A. Plant Hardiness Zones 4–9, depending on species or cultivar. Best with winter chill, in cool, low-humidity climates.
Soil Type and Fertility
Damp, well-drained soil. Fertility: Rich. 6.5–7.5 pH.
Where and How to Plant
Full to filtered sun. Space 15–20 ft. (4.5–6 m) apart.
Proper Care
Moderate. Allow soil surface to dry between waterings until established. Fertilize annually in spring until established. Prune after flowering; remove root suckers on grafted stock. Propagate by cuttings, grafting, seed.
About This Species
Good choice for accents, containers, paths in Asian gardens. Drops flowers, foliage, requiring maintenance. Smog, pest and fungal disease susceptible.