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List of medium-sized upright / spreading flowering cherry trees

A selection of medium-sized flowering cherry trees with an upright or spreading habit.

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  • Amber Beauty

    Amber Beauty flowering cherry tree
    Amber Beauty is a form of the Manchurian Cherry, notable for dense clusters of white blossom.
    • Flower colour: White
    • Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
    • Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
    Prunus maackii

  • Ascendens Rosea

    Ascendens Rosea flowering cherry tree
    This beautiful flowering cherry has a graceful upright habit and white/pink blossom.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Growth habit: Upright
    • Flower colour: Pink - light
    • Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
    Prunus pendula

  • Autumnalis

    Autumnalis flowering cherry tree
    A Japanese flowering cherry with white blossom. Flowering may begin around Christmas and continue to spring in some seasons.
    • Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
    • Flower colour: White
    • Flower form: Semi-double flower (10-20 petals)
    • Awards: RHS AM
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)
    Prunus x subhirtella

  • Autumnalis Rosea

    Autumnalis Rosea flowering cherry tree
    A Japanese flowering cherry with light pink blossom, can sometimes flower through the whole winter.
    • Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
    • Flower colour: Pink - light
    • Flower form: Semi-double flower (10-20 petals)
    • Awards: RHS AM
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)
    Prunus x subhirtella

  • Branklyn

    Branklyn flowering cherry tree
    One of the best forms of Prunus serrula, grown for its beautiful peeling brown bark.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Flower colour: White
    • Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
    • Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
    Prunus serrula

  • Catherine

    An unusual winter-flowering cherry, which also has superb autumn leaf colours.
    • Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
    • Flower colour: White
    • Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
    Prunus

  • Columnaris

    Columnaris japanese flowering cherry
    A more erect form of Sargent's cherry, and with more dramatic autumn colours.
    • Growth habit: Upright
    • Flower colour: Pink
    • Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
    • Flowering month: March
    • Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
    • Leaf colour - autumn: Orange / Red
    Prunus sargentii

  • Daikoku

    Daikoku japanese flowering cherry
    Daikoku is one of the less well-known Japanese blossom trees, but features pretty pink - white blossom.
    • Growth habit: Upright
    • Flower colour: Pink - light
    • Height after 10 years: 2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
    • Flowering month: April
    • Flowering month: May
    • Flower form: Double flower (25-50 petals)
    Prunus

  • Hally Jolivette

    Hally Jolivette flowering cherry tree
    This graceful flowering cherry is notable for its long-lived white blossom.
    • Flower colour: White
    • Flower form: Semi-double flower (10-20 petals)
    • Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
    Prunus subhirtella

  • Kursar

    Kursar flowering cherry tree
    A small ornamental early-flowing cherry tree, with profuse blossom.
    • Flower colour: Pink
    • Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
    • Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
    • Awards: RHS AM
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)
    Prunus

  • Le Thoureil

    Le Thoureil flowering cherry tree
    A good example of the Bird Cherry, with semi-double flowers, ideal for smaller gardens.
    • Growth habit: Upright
    • Flower colour: White
    • Flower form: Semi-double flower (10-20 petals)
    Prunus padus

  • Okame

    Okame flowering cherry tree
    Okame is a small hardy blossom tree featuring shell-pink single flowers and attractive autumn colours.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Flower colour: Pink
    • Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
    • Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
    Prunus incisa x Prunus campanulata

  • Pandora

    Pandora flowering cherry tree
    An excellent small flowering cherry, with pale pink blossom, and interesting leaf colour in both spring and autumn.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Growth habit: Upright
    • Flower colour: Pink - light
    • Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
    Prunus

  • Pink Shell

    Pink Shell flowering cherry tree
    This perfectly named flowering cherry features clusters of pink blossom hanging like pink shells.
    • Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
    • Flower colour: White
    • Flower colour: Pink - light
    • Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)
    Prunus

  • Powder Puff

    Powder Puff flowering cherry tree
    Powder Puff (also known as Kobuku-zakura) is an early-flowering white cherry blossom tree, with particularly luxuriant double-white flowers.
    • Flower colour: White
    • Flower form: Double flower (25-50 petals)
    • Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
    Prunus

  • Prunus serrula

    Prunus serrula flowering cherry tree
    A popular flowering cherry tree species, The Tibetan cherry or Birch Bark cherry is well-known for its attractive bark.
    • Flower colour: White
    • Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
    • Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
    • Awards: RHS AM
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)
    Prunus serrula

  • Shosar

    Shosar flowering cherry tree
    An upright fastigate flowering cherry with pink blossom and good autumn leaf colours.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Growth habit: Upright
    • Flower colour: Pink - light
    • Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
    Prunus campanulata x incisa x sargentii

  • Snow Goose

    Snow Goose flowering cherry tree
    A small upright flowering cherry tree with particularly large single white flowers.
    • Growth habit: Upright
    • Flower colour: White
    • Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
    Prunus incisa x speciosa

  • Spire

    Spire flowering cherry tree
    A compact upright blossom tree with pale pink flowers, and orange-red autumn foliage colours.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Growth habit: Upright
    • Flower colour: Pink - light
    • Flower form: Semi-double flower (10-20 petals)
    Prunus

  • Spring Snow

    A Japanese flowering cherry with double-flowered white blossom borne on bare branches, followed by coppery-leaves.
    • Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
    • Flower colour: White
    • Flower form: Double flower (25-50 petals)
    Prunus

  • Stellata

    Stellata flowering cherry tree
    A small flowering cherry tree, named after its star-shaped pink blossom.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
    • Flower colour: Pink - light
    • Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
    Prunus pendula

  • The Bride

    The Bride flowering cherry tree
    A small ornamental cherry with large single white flowers.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Growth habit: Spreading / Flat-topped
    • Flower colour: White
    • Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
    Prunus

  • Tiltstone Hellfire

    Tilstone Hellfire is small flowering cherry tree with large single flowers, and spectacular autumn colours.
    • Flower colour: Pink - light
    • Flower form: Single flower (5-8 petals)
    • Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
    Prunus