The highlights
- Prolific display of deep pink flowers in spring
- Green, heart-shaped leaves
- Fully Hardy and happy in full sun or partial shade
- Spectacular Autumn Colour
Description
- One of the earliest trees to flower in spring, Cercis bursts into colour in April and keeps its large clusters of spectacular bright pink blooms right throughout May.
- The flowers are said to look like hummingbirds, with showy blooms tapering off into long, thin beak-like stems
- They’re set amongst bright green, heart-shaped foliage that turns a gorgeous range of golden yellow and bronze tones in the autumn
- Cercis are fully hardy trees, happy in both full sun and partial shade, and will tolerate most soil types. Slow growing and compact, they’re perfect for even small gardens
- Clusters of reddish purple flattened seed pods hang from the branches in autumn
- One of the few trees to grow flowers from its trunk, in a natural phenomenon known as Cauliflory
- Holds the RHS Plants for Pollinators award for its value to bees, butterflies and other insects
- A low maintenance tree that’s drought tolerant once established
- 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 becoming “leggy”, and promote stronger, bushier growth.MORE
