Accolade Cherry Trees

Accolade Cherry Trees

Prunus Accolade, is a petite, pink flowering cherry tree, well suited to a small garden. It blooms heavily in early spring, with rich pink buds opening into variably pink-white, fragrant, fully 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.
A slender tree, with a fairly sparse canopy that doesn't cast much shade, it can reach a height of about 5-8 metres.

Browse our cherry blossom trees or our range of ornamental trees.

Delivery season: Cherry blossom trees are delivered bareroot during late autumn and winter, approximately November-March inclusive.
Choosing a size: Small trees are cheaper, easier to handle and more forgiving of less than ideal aftercare, so they're best for a big planting project. If instant impact is your priority, or if you are only buying a few plants for use in a place where it's convenient to water them well in their first year, then you may as well use bigger ones. All our bareroot trees are measured by their height in centimetres above the ground (the roots aren't measured).

Features

• Height: To 5-8m
• Soil: Any well drained
• Use: Small gardens, specimen
• Soft pink, fragrant flowers in March-April
• RHS Award of Garden Merit
• Bareroot delivery only: November-March
  

Growing Accolade Cherries

It'll grow on most well drained soils, preferably rich ones, and although it's a hardy tree, we recommend planting it in sheltered, sunny places, where it'll flower best.

History & Trivia

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

Standard trees are measured by their girth in centimetres 1 metre above ground level: their trunk's waist measurement. Unlike sapling trees and hedge plants, standards aren't measured by their height, which will vary quite a bit both between and within species.
So, a 6/8cm standard tree has a trunk with a circumference of 6-8cm and an 8/10 standard has a trunk 8-10cm around. This measurement makes no difference to the tree's final height.
On average, standard trees are 2-3.5 metres tall when they arrive, but we cannot tell you precisely how tall your trees will be before we deliver them.