BLOSSOM BEAUTIES!!

Hello - what a lovely week! Here in Suffolk - it has been an absolutely gorgeous week on the weather front - blue skies and warm. It is typical of course that it improved after the Easter holiday - when we had all gone back to work!!

But - never mind! The recent warmth has prompted the Prunus and the many other blossom trees to begin their season of glory. There are so many beauties in this family - it is hard sometimes to know which to go for - but the few below are some of the favourites of the Crown Nursery staff.

The one above here is the gorgeous PLUM-APRICOT HYBRID - PRUNUS X BILIRIANA. A superb blossom - very large and semi-double - but with the added bonus of purple summer foliage - so it has everything you could want!!

If you favour white blossom - then the photo on the left here is PRUNUS 'UMENIKO'. Another cracker - I particularly like the pink 'eye' to the flower - nice!! It is one of the new generation of cherries - with a longer lasting flower - and excellent autumn colour.

We actually have a SPECIAL OFFER on these this spring!! Normally they are on at £36.00 - for approx a 6ft tree - but at the moment they are just £28.00!! A BARGAIN FOR SURE!!

Another tree that is in full flower at the moment is PRUNUS DULCIS - the ALMOND. The blossom is as pretty as you can get - and of course - if it is a good summer - you will also actually get some ALMONDS in the autumn!!

The colour of the flowers of these is just wonderful - and they so stand out against the sky on a sunny day.

But I have left my favourite until last!! The lovely photo on the left here is PRUNUS 'ACCOLADE'. If ever a plant deserved it's name - it's this one!! It has won many awards over the years - and is one of the most reliable cherries of them all. Just look at this lovely photo taken the other day of a tree on the TREE WALK - against a typical Suffolk Blue sky. Gorgeous dark pink buds open to large single pink flowers - which hum with bees on a warm day. If you are really lucky - you will get small red cherries in late summer - for the birds rather than for us - and then orange and red autumn colour - it is one of the new generation cherries that have been bred for a longer flowering season - since it flowers first on old wood and then on the younger branches too. THERE WHAT MORE COULD YOU ASK FOR IN A TREE???

With the ground full of moisture - and the season running behind - you can still plant a container-grown tree of one of these crackers this spring - just try and get them in by the end of the month if you can.

FILL YOUR GARDEN WITH BLOSSOM THIS SPRING!!

UNTIL NEXT TIME,

RICHARD