If you're looking for a flowering cherry with real wow factor, 'Kiku-Shidare-Zakura' certainly delivers. Also known as Cheal's Weeping Cherry, its gracefully arching branches cascade downwards and become covered in clusters of densely double pink flowers in spring, creating the wonderfully full, almost fluffy display this Japanese weeping cherry is known for.
There's more colour to come from the foliage. New leaves emerge with attractive bronze tints, creating a lovely contrast with the pink blossom before maturing to glossy green for summer. As autumn arrives, the leaves can develop hints of bronze, orange and yellow before falling.
Big on blossom but still a manageable size, 'Kiku-Shidare-Zakura' makes a fantastic feature tree for smaller gardens. Its cascading shape gives it real presence in a lawn or border, with the weeping branches becoming more characterful as the tree matures.
How your tree is supplied:
Supplied as a bare-root tree, grafted onto Colt rootstock. Its naturally weeping branches develop into an elegant cascading shape as the tree matures.
