Pink Flowering Bird Cherry Trees

Prunus padus Colorata: Bareroot Pink Bird Cherry Trees in Standard Sizes

The Purple Leaf Bird Cherry is a pink flowering variety of the native Bird Cherry tree. It is a striking specimen, with excellent contrasts and changes of colour across the year.
The leaf buds and new stems begin as a deep purple, bronzing into a coppery tone as the leaves unfurl, becoming deep green in summer and then red in Autumn. The flowers appear in May, while the leaves are still fresh, on long flowering strands called racemes. Each delicate flower has pale pink petals around a rose-hip coloured centre. These face out in every direction from their central stalk, appearing all the more vivid because of the rich foliage. The small, bitter black fruit are popular with birds.
With its narrow, upright canopy it is suitable for most gardens, and reaches a height of about 10 metres.

Browse our variety of cherry blossom trees or our full range of garden 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 are 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 is 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 10m
• Soil: Any decently well drained, even compacted
• Use: Small gardens, specimen, urban
• Colour: Pink flowers in April-May, red Autumn foliage
• RHS Award of Garden Merit
• Bareroot delivery only: November-March

Growing Colorata Bird Cherry Trees

This is a tough, hardy tree that will grow in most well drained sites, and tolerates compacted urban soils and air pollution. It really needs close full sun to flower well; given that it is such an ornamental tree, it is not worth planting in partial shade in our opinion.