Collection: Flowering Trees

In short, all sorts! There are trees you can go to specifically for their flowers, like cherry blossoms, magnolias, crabapples, redbuds and flowering dogwoods, for instance, as well as fruiting trees that put on a bloomin’ good show alongside their production of fruit – we’re talking apples, pears, plums and peaches (to name just a few).

Chinese dogwoods have flower-like bracts that can last for several weeks before fading. Strawberry trees provide autumn-long flowers, while the winter-flowering cherry blossoms offer up blossoms on and off through the winter months. Most flowering trees hold their flowers for two to three weeks before they lose them.

There are plenty of smaller, more compact flowering trees out there, including Cheal’s weeping cherry blossom, ‘Susan’ magnolia and ‘Copacabana’ Japanese dogwood. You could also purchase a patio tree, or a fruit tree grafted onto a dwarfing rootstock (like M26 for apples, for instance).

The best flowering trees for wildlife are hawthorns, pussy willows and crabapples. These provide food and shelter for a range of beneficial pollinating insects and birds.

Magnolia grandiflora has exceptional, perfumed blooms, and so too does the Japanese apricot tree (Prunus mume).