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PRUNUS
Commonly known as Cherry tree
The family of stone fruits, cherries, peaches, plums, nectarines, apricots, and almonds, and a dazzling array of ornamentals, all within the greater rose family. In Japan sakura zensen (the cherry blossom front) is followed northwards and is a cause of much celebration.
Because cherry flowers bloom en masse and because of their ephemeral nature they can provide one of the best horticultural events of the year when even a modest tree can provide a snowstorm of petals, falling to cover the ground beneath.
Genus of more than 200 species of deciduous or evergreen trees and shrubs widely distributed in northern temperate regions and the mountains of southeastern Asia. Because of their food and ornamental value they have been transported to most parts of the world where some have become naturalised.
UK natives are P. avium, wild cherry, P. padus, bird cherry and P. spinosa, blackthorn or sloe.
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Deciduous
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Evergreen
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Tree
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Zero Rated ItemNo VAT on this plantEdible fruited species
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Additional Features
Good to knowGrown for attractive white or pink flowers, bark colour, edible fruits, hedging, screening and ground cover
Place of originWidely distributed in northern temperate regions, the Andes and mountains of south-east Asia
- Introduction
- Long established and widely grown Japanese flowering cherries
- Matsumae cherries
- Flowering cherries with other attributes
- Pruning drooping branches - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Pruning overlapping branches - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Prunus 'Okame', 'Kursar' & conradinae - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Growing laurels
- Annual Pruning Laurel Hedge - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Hard Pruning Laurel Hedge - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Laurel hedging over the years - Video Tip ondemand_video
- How to plant a tree - Video Tip ondemand_video
- How to plant a tree
- Ties - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Restaking fallen young trees - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Fallen old tree - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Clearing up fallen beech tree - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Spring pruning - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Removing side shoots - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Pruning and Shaping Magnolia - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Deer protection - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Weed Spraying - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Removing Ivy - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Removing wire protection - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Tree Survey - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Crown uplift - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Removing shoots below graft - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Removing peeling bark - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Maintaining variegation - Video Tip ondemand_video
Buy Varieties of PRUNUS
MATSUMAE FLOWERING CHERRIES
PRUNUS 'Matsumae-hanagasa'
(Pink Parasol) - double, pale pink flowers on long stems
PRUNUS 'Matsumae-shizuka'
(Fragrant Cloud) - highly scented semi-double white flowers
FRUITING CHERRIES
PRUNUS cerasifera 'Nigra'
red leaves when young then turning dark purple. Pink flowers
PRUNUS x cistena
red leaves and white flowers in spring. Black edible fruits
Gift-wrapping available
PRUNUS incisa 'Kojo No Mai'
masses of small white or pale pink flowers very early in the spring carried on zig zag shoots
Gift-wrapping available
PRUNUS incisa 'Mikinori'
semi-double flowers which are pink in bud opening white
Gift-wrapping available
PRUNUS incisa 'Oshidori'
(syn. P. incisa 'Omoi-no-yama') - double, pale pink frilled flowers, deepening in colour with age
Gift-wrapping available
PRUNUS incisa 'Pendula'
abundant white flowers on long branches
Gift-wrapping available
PRUNUS incisa 'The Bride'
pure white flowers and green calyces
Gift-wrapping available
PRUNUS mume 'Beni-chidori'
strongly fragrant single, cup-shaped pink flowers. Pink in bud fading after opening
PRUNUS mume 'Omoi-no-mama'
(syn. 'Omoi-no-wac') - Double white, pink- flushed flowers
PRUNUS nipponica var. kurilensis 'Brilliant'
dwarf compact habit with flowers which open white and fade to soft pink
Gift-wrapping available
PRUNUS spinosa
white flowers
Gift-wrapping available
PRUNUS tenella 'Fire Hill'
suckering shrub with brilliant rose-red flowers. The most attractive of all the dwarf almonds and ideal for growing in a heather bed
PRUNUS triloba 'Rosenmund'
(syn. ‘Korros’) - Double pink flowers
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