Yoshino cherry (Prunus × yedoensis) is one of the largest types of ornamental cherries. It is a fast-growing but short-lived tree, often only thriving for about 15 years.

Okame cherry (Prunus × incamp 'Okame') is one of the hardiest ornamental cherry trees. “It can handle hot summers and cold winters and is more tolerant of urban pollution than many other ...

The Taiwan flowering cherry and the Okame flowering cherry are popular varieties to consider, Owings says. Flower colors on redbuds vary from light, medium or dark pink to rosy purple, pinkish ...

‘Okame’ Cherry grows about 25 feet tall but is somewhat wider than Taiwan Cherry. Chickasaw Plum (Prunus angustifolia) is a native small tree growing up to 20 feet tall.

But, there are other trees that also put on a display and complement the magnolias perfectly. Witness the flowering cherry blooming in January and February, and, a little later, the redbud.

Okame cherry (Prunus x incamp 'Okame' PROO-nus in-KAMP oh-KA-may) is a beautiful small flowering tree that is the result of the outstanding breeding work done by the late Dr. Donald Egolf of the ...

Among our earliest-flowering trees, Okame is a hybrid that grows to roughly 25 feet tall and 20 feet wide. Developed in the 1940s from two species of Prunus, it usually blooms just before ...

Instead, we had a long and glorious blossoming (the tree is 30 feet tall). The blooms coincided, strangely, with the flowering of the Japanese cherry trees.