4 Best Flowering Cherry Trees to Grow in the South | Gardener's Path

If would take the better portion of a day to name every variety of cherry tree. All of them lovely and all originating from China and Japan.

Some grow small and compact, others grow tall and provide shade, some produce cherries while others are strictly ornamental.

All varieties of this flowering tree will grow well when planted in full sun and well draining soil, but certain varieties do better in certain climates and growing zones.

These four are the best cherry trees to grow in the southern climate and soil.

All varieties of the weeping cherry tree grow pendulous-style branches, but that is where their similarity ends. The flowers might be pink or white: single or double blooms.

The tree may be a grafted onto a Higan cherry root stock (P. x subhirtella) or it may be grown on it’s own root stock.

The weeper may grow to look like an up-shooting fountain or give a more formal look with branches cascading down to the ground, either can reach a mature height of 12 feet or 40 feet.

Fall foliage is also spectacular on a weeping cherry tree. With leaves that turn either golden yellow or orange.

Make sure you are purchasing the variety of weeping cherry tree that you want for your landscape.

The star of annual cherry festival in Washington, D. C. and other spring celebrations around the south, the Yoshino flowering cherry (Prunus x yedoensis) is fast growing and starts producing blooms the first spring after planting.

Yoshino cherry trees will reach a mature size of about 35 feet tall and wide and produce clouds of pinkish-white blooms each spring before the branches leaf out.

Fall foliage colors range from yellow to reddish-brown.

This is the ornamental