The highlights
- Strong upright tree
- Ideal for small spaces, growing to 4x4m
- Small white spring flowers
- Blossoms in April-May
Description
- Calling all bark fans! Tibetan Cherry is an absolute standout, with lustrous, coppery red colour that brings a much needed shot of vibrance to the winter landscape
- Also known as the Birch Bark Tree, Paperbark and Cellophane Bark Cherry, it’s got more aliases than David Bowie.
- About that bark – as the tree grows, it peels off in translucent strips that look like stained glass when the sun shines through them. After a few years the trunk will also develop deep, banded lenticels (bumpy lines) which give it even more tactile appeal.
- In spring, you’ll see clusters of small white flowers, which the bees love!
- Following that, dark green foliage emerges, turning rich golden yellow in autumn. Ornamental cherries appear in autumn, starting off red and turning white as they ripen.
- Grows to a maximum of 5m, making it a great specimen tree to plant in a lawn – or by the roadside, as it’s fantastically pollution tolerant. Wherever you plant yours, make sure you can see it from a window so you don’t miss a thing.
- A low maintenance tree which is happy in any moist and well-drained soil apart from chalk and won’t need much pruning.
- Team it with Silver Birch to bring out the colour of both trees, or underplant with winter flowering Hellebores
- According to Chinese folklore, a branch hung above your door on New Years Day will keep away evil all the year
- Our potted trees are supplied in EcoPots™. Eco pots use 70% less plastic and are fully recyclable, unlike normal single-use pots. They flex and so produce less root spiralling and travel better in the post.MORE
- Our trees are usually between 18 and 36 months old at the time of dispatch.
- Our trees are professionally pruned before dispatching. This formative pruning can involve cutting the main leader if the expert tree growers decide this will produce a better-shaped tree. This can stop the tree from becoming “leggy”, and promote stronger, bushier growth.MORE
