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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 FeaturesGood to knowGrown for attractive white or pink flowers, bark colour, edible fruits, hedging, screening and ground coverPlace 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
FLOWERING CHERRIES
![Royal Horticultural Society 'Award of Garden Merit' (AGM) AWARD](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/misc/agm_large.png)
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. PRUNUS 'Amanogawa'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/prunus_amanogawa_3443.jpg)
PRUNUS 'Amanogawa'
tight columnar habit and dense clusters of semi-double pale pink flowers
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. PRUNUS avium](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/Prunus_avium.jpg)
PRUNUS avium
spreading wild cherry tree
![Royal Horticultural Society 'Award of Garden Merit' (AGM) AWARD](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/misc/agm_large.png)
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. PRUNUS avium 'Plena'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/prunus_avium_plena_3445d.jpg)
PRUNUS avium 'Plena'
double white flowered form
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. PRUNUS campanulatus 'Felix Jury'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/prunus_felix_jury_6841.jpg)
PRUNUS campanulatus 'Felix Jury'
deep pink flowers with yellow stamens
![Royal Horticultural Society 'Award of Garden Merit' (AGM) AWARD](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/misc/agm_large.png)
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. PRUNUS x hillieri 'Spire'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/prunus_x_hillieri_spire_3459.jpg)
PRUNUS x hillieri 'Spire'
conical habit with soft pink flowers in early spring
![Royal Horticultural Society 'Award of Garden Merit' (AGM) AWARD](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/misc/agm_large.png)
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. PRUNUS x incam 'Okamé'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/prunus_okame_6681.jpg)
PRUNUS x incam 'Okamé'
(incisa x campanulata) - startlingly attractive carmine-red flowers early in the seaon
![Royal Horticultural Society 'Award of Garden Merit' (AGM) AWARD](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/misc/agm_large.png)
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. PRUNUS 'Kanzan'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/prunus_kanzan_4.jpg)
PRUNUS 'Kanzan'
the most floriferous of the double pink cherries with vigorous and quick growing habit
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. PRUNUS 'Kiku-shidare-zakura'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/prunus_kiku_shidare_zakura.jpg)
PRUNUS 'Kiku-shidare-zakura'
deep pink double flowering cherry with weeping habit
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. PRUNUS 'Kursar'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/prunus_kursar_6680.jpg)
PRUNUS 'Kursar'
new growth coppery. Single pink flowers. Small tree with spreading habit
![Royal Horticultural Society 'Award of Garden Merit' (AGM) AWARD](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/misc/agm_large.png)
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. PRUNUS 'Pink Perfection'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/prunus_pink_perfection_3449s.jpg)
PRUNUS 'Pink Perfection'
one of the most attractive of all the cherries. Bright rosy pink buds opening paler pink, double
![Royal Horticultural Society 'Award of Garden Merit' (AGM) AWARD](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/misc/agm_large.png)
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. PRUNUS 'Royal Burgundy'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/prunus_royal_burgundy_5999.jpg)
PRUNUS 'Royal Burgundy'
deep purple young foliage turning bronze in autumn. Double rose-pink flowers
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. PRUNUS rufa](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/prunus_rufa_6364_s.jpg)
PRUNUS rufa
rusty and hairy new shoots and clusters of pale pink flowers. The best aspect of this species is its peeling reddish-brown bark
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. PRUNUS sargentii](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/prunus_sargentii.jpg)
PRUNUS sargentii
pale pink flowers with bronze red young foliage, brilliant autumn colours
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. PRUNUS serrula](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/prunus_serrula_3451.jpg)
PRUNUS serrula
beautiful polished mahogany coloured stems
![Royal Horticultural Society 'Award of Garden Merit' (AGM) AWARD](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/misc/agm_large.png)
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. PRUNUS 'Shimidsu'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/prunus_shimidsu_3454.jpg)
PRUNUS 'Shimidsu'
('Shogetsu') - wide spreading branches and a flattened top to this attractive tree. Flowers are pink tinted in bud opening pure white all along the branches
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