An 'Okame' cherry tree blooms in full force in April. * Common name: Flowering cherry 'Okame' * Botanical name: Prunus x incam 'Okame' * What it is: One of the earliest cherry trees to flower ...

Japanese flowering cherry (Prunus serrulata) is a small, wide-spreading tree that grows about 25 feet tall and wide. It has pink or white flowers that are single or double in midspring. In fall ...

It’s cherry blossom time and there is no happier way to welcome spring than by attending a cherry blossom festival, whether it be the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington D.C., or the ...

Okame cherry (Prunus x incamp 'Okame' PROO-nus in-KAMP oh-KA-may) is a beautiful small flowering tree that is the result of the outstanding breeding work done by the late Dr. Donald Egolf of the ...

Developed in the 1940s from two species of Prunus, ... Flowers of the Okame cherry tree feature carmine-pink petals that flutter on the slightest ... which blooms in both spring and autumn; ...

Prunus 'Okame' is a cross between incisa and campanulata, which was made by Captain Collingwood Ingram . He was always known as 'Cherry' Ingram because he did so much work on hybridising the trees.

Refining the already elegant Japanese flowering cherry tree, Agricultural Research Service hybridizer Margaret Pooler has released just the third new introduction in a 22-year-old breeding program.

As part of the nationwide Sakura Cherry Tree Project (japanuksakura.org) symbolising UK-Japan friendship and cooperation, RHS gardens are among 160 sites planting flowering cherry trees.

If you decide to plant a cherry tree this spring, you need to commit to regular watering over the coming summer. Perhaps best to peruse the catalogues - and better still to visit an arboretum, or ...

‘Okame’ cherry has a distinctive vase shape as it grows 20 to 30 feet tall. Its bright pink flowers and shiny red bark are a pleasing combination. Its leaves turn bold orange-red in autumn.