Prunus Accolade

Accolade cherry, Prunus Accolade, is a petite, pink flowering tree, well suited to a small garden. It will grow on most well drained soils, preferably rich ones, and although it is a hardy tree, we recommend planting it in sheltered, sunny places. Accolade is slender tree, with a fairly sparse canopy that doesn't cast much shade. It blooms heavily in early spring, with rich pink buds opening into variably pink-white full double flowers. In a mild year, you can see a few flowers appearing in Autumn and Winter before the full show in Spring. Like most cherry trees, the autumn colour is rich and vivid, with plenty of red and orange on display. Prunus Accolade can reach a height of about 5-8 metres.

Browse our variety of cherry blossom trees or see our full range of ornamental trees for sale.

History & uses of Prunus Accolade:

Prunus Accolade was bred from Prunus sargentii and Prunus x subhirtella sometime around 1950. It has won several awards from the RHS, including an Award of Garden Merit for being attractive & easy to grow.

How Standard Trees are Measured: All our ornamental trees, are graded by their girth in centimetres - measured 1 metre above ground level. A 6/8 standard has a trunk with a girth of 6-8 centimetres and an 8/10 standard has one of 8-10 centimetres. In any variety an 8/10 is taller than a 6/8 but the heights between different varieties can vary hugely. Most of our standard trees are between about 2.5 - 4.5 metres tall.

Notes on planting Accolade cherry trees:
Accolade cherry trees will grow well in any soil type that has good drainage, although you will get much better flowers on trees that are growing in rich, moist soil. We recommend choosing a site with full sun and some shelter because although your trees are hardy, their blossom is not and harsh conditions will deprive you of a good flower show. They will not grow well if the site is too poor and dry or if it is too wet.

Prepare your site before planting:
It is good to dig over the site where you plant a tree several months in advance. Kill the weeds first: for tough weeds like nettles, brambles and ground elder, you will usually need a glyphosate based weed-killer to get rid of them. When you dig the soil over, remove stones and other rubbish and mix in well rotted compost or manure down to the depth of about 2 spades.

Watch our video on how to plant a tree for full instructions.
Remember to water establishing trees during dry weather for at least a year after planting.

Tree Planting accessories:
Prepare your site for planting by killing the weeds and grass with Roundup weed killer.
You can buy a tree planting pack with a wooden stake & rubber tie to support the tree and a mulch mat with pegs to protect the soil around the base of your tree from weeds and drying out.
We suggest that you use mycorrhizal "friendly fungi" on the roots of all newly planted large trees: if your soil quality is poor, we strongly recommend it.
You can also improve your soil with bonemeal organic fertiliser and Growmore.

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Delivery: The basic delivery charge for orders of bareroot plants is £6.50 + vat, which increases to £12.55 + vat if you add any pot-grown plants, standard trees or fruit trees to the order.
Because couriers sometimes experience delays, we schedule delivery by week, not by day. Therefore, please plan your planting day for the weekend at the end of the delivery week or for the week following delivery, at the earliest.
We will email you the day before your plants are due to arrive.

*Surcharges to the Highlands and Islands still apply.

Payment: We do not charge your card until we begin to prepare your order for packing.

Guarantee: If any plants die within a year, we will replace them. We only ask that you follow our planting & growing instructions and sent us clear photographs of the dead plants in situ, so we can help to make sure that the replacement plants succeed. You only pay for the delivery of the replacements.

Please note that our guarantee is void if there is a hosepipe ban in your area: your newly planted hedging must be watered in dry weather while it is establishing. The best way to water is very thoroughly every few days: at least once a week if there is no heavy rain.

Our nursery has been supplying container grown and bareroot hedging plants to gardeners, farmers and town planners since 1949. Our website started in 2003, so we do understand the concerns that you may have about buying hedging plants online. If any of your plants are damaged when they arrive or if you are otherwise not satisfied with your order after you inspect it, please repackage it and contact us. We will give you a refund or send replacements and send a courier to come and collect the unwanted plants.

Misc	RHS AGM, Wildlife Value
Shade	Partial Shade
Area	Frost Pockets, Scotland & The North
Soil	Alkaline/Chalky, Poor/Dry
Colour	Pink - Light
Type	Screening
Also Good	Autumn Colour, Beautiful Bark
Flowering	Mar, Apr

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SIZES	1-2	3-9	10+
1/2 std Bareroot	Out of Stock £33.00	Out of Stock£28.92	Out of Stock£26.28
6/8 std Bareroot	Out of Stock £59.88	Out of Stock£57.48	Out of Stock£51.48
8/10 std Bareroot	Out of Stock £88.80	Out of Stock£80.40	Out of Stock£67.20
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Accolade Cherry Trees

Prunus Accolade - Standard

Buckle and Strap Ties

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Stakes - Tree Planting

From £6.96

Tree Planting Pack

From £10.19

Rootgrow Afterplant Tree & Shrub

From £6.95

Prunus Accolade

History & uses of Prunus Accolade:

Bareroot planting is best done between October and April
Bareroot and potted - what's the difference?

You can See Current Delivery Information Here

Accolade Cherry Trees

Prunus Accolade - Standard

Buckle and Strap Ties

From £2.04

Stakes - Tree Planting

From £6.96

Tree Planting Pack

From £10.19

Rootgrow Afterplant Tree & Shrub

From £6.95

Prunus Accolade

History & uses of Prunus Accolade:

Bareroot planting is best done between October and April Bareroot and potted - what's the difference?

Bareroot planting is best done between October and April
Bareroot and potted - what's the difference?