Prunus serrula Tibetica
Tibetan Cherry

Description

Features:
✓ Pretty, white spring blossom
✓ Narrow, Willow like leaves
✓ Mahogany-red, peeling bark all year round
✓ Medium-sized, rounded tree

A Cherry tree with a rounded crown with clusters of small, single, bowl-shaped white flowers in May. Leaves are unusual for a Cherry and more like that of a Willow, with long, narrow, serrated, dark-green leaves throughout spring and summer, turning shades of orange, red and yellow in autumn. Its trunk bark has stunning, glossy, copper-brown, shiny bark that looks polished as the old bark peels off. The bark provides interest all year round, especially in winter. It will grow up to 8m in height by 4m in width.p 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 Stakes to support the tree - buy here.
Tree Belting to secure the tree to the stake supports - 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.