Cotoneaster cornubia

Description

Features:
✓ Semi-evegreen foliage
✓ Small white flowers in spring that are really good for pollinators
✓ Abundance of red berries in autumn (a favourite of the blackbirds)
✓ Fast-growing, often needs trimming twice a year
✓ Ideal for screening

The purple/dark-leaved flowering Plum/Cherry is popular for its rich, deep-purple leaves throughout spring and summer and stems that are almost black. The foliage provides brilliant interest to any space and looks striking alone, or underplanted with lighter foliage planting. In spring, an abundance of double, pink flowers bloom, alonside new, bronze leaves. In autumn before the leaves fall, they turn shades of red and orange. This Plum Cherry has a rounded form and will grow up to 5m in height, by 3m wide. Will tolerate most conditions apart from very wet or shallow, chalky soil.
Don't forget to consider:
Tree Staking Support Kit to support the tree - buy here.
Tree and Shrub Compost to add a layer of good soil in the planting hole - buy here.
Mycorrhizal fungi to encourage strong, new roots - buy here.