PRUNUS 'Kiku-shidare-zakura'

Description: Common name: Japanese Cherry 'Cheal's Weeping?. Small tree with drooping branches producing small double, deep pink flowers in mid-late spring. The young leaves are tinged bronze turning glossy green in summer

Uses: Ideal for a small garden or next to a pond

Climate/Position: Open sunny position preferred to ensure best shape and flowering

Height/Spread: Height 4 metres

Soil Requirements: Tolerant of most well drained soils including lime/chalky soils

Pruning: No pruning necessary except shaping young trees or removal of crossing branches. In older trees dead branches may be removed. Prune in mid-summer after flowering

Additional Interest: An old variety known from the 1890?s. Its name translates as Weeping Chrysanthemum Cherry