Plants Flowering in April

White flowers followed by large orange fruit good for jelly-making.

The best fruiting crab apple with white flowers and bright orange fruit

Dark reddish flowers and bronzy purple leaves. Dark purple fruit

An excellent fruiting tree with white flowers and large clusters of deep red fruits

Glossy dark purple leaves turning red in autumn. Crimson-purple flowers, dark red fruits

Double dark pink flowers followed by orange fruit.

An outstanding species which grows into a dome-shaped tree. Pink budded white flowers in profusion followed by small rounded golden-yellow fruits

Erect tree. Pink-flushed white flowers. Orange, red and purple leaves in autumn

A Mexican plant with a jade-green bracted flowering spike which can be cut and dried to good effect. The bracts turn an attractive pink after flowering

Fine-toothed shiny leaves similar to Phillyrea latifolia. Tiny green flowers on this unusual and rare plant

All Flower APR-JUN

(Syn. betonicifolia) - blue Himalayan poppy

Blue Himalayan poppy.

(formerly and often incorrectly called M. sheldonii) - tall growing variety with varying shades of blue flowers which produce fertile seed

Purple-blue flowers.

A rare but attractive tree more common in the Mediterranean, with fragrant lilac flowers. Bead-like fruits remain long after the leaves have fallen

Handsome architectural evergreen for the herbaceous border in milder climates. Bluish green pinnate leaves and crimson tubular flowers

An upright shrub with obovate leaves and literally thousands of tiny yellow flowers from the stems. Berries purplish when ripe

Large white flowers and edible brown fruits. This variety has larger leaves and more fruit

Huge trees at Caerhays have a multitude of heavily scented white flowers

Vigorous habit with heavily felted brown undersides to the leaves and plentiful creamy-white scented flowers

Pale pink fragrant flowers

Profuse flowers in creamy-white

Limey-white with pink edges

Profuse flowers in white

(syn. yunnanensis) - strongly fragrant white flowers from velvety buds

Compact growing with scented creamy-white flowers emerging from velvety-brown buds

White, fragrant.

Leathery leaves and fragrant brownish-yellow flowers