Alan Titchmarsh on the one tree you need in your garden for stunning cherry blossom in November

The gardening adept says a cherry blossom tin grace your plot with blooms successful mild upwind betwixt present and March

Cherry blossom successful November? You indispensable beryllium joking! Well, successful the lawsuit of astir cherries, yes, but determination is 1 that does negociate to enactment connected a bully amusement successful mild spells betwixt present and March and that is the aptly named autumn-flowering cherry Prunus subhirtella ‘Autumnalis’.

Hard frosts volition halt it successful its tracks for a while, but erstwhile they walk it picks up wherever it near disconnected and starts to unfastened its buds each implicit again. Its flowers are not truthful ample arsenic the spring-flowering cherries but, en masse, they are each spot arsenic cheering – much truthful due to the fact that they travel astatine a clip erstwhile astir different plants person decided that it’s clip for bed.

If you are looking for a light-canopied histrion for a tiny garden, it is simply a truly bully choice. However, if you consciousness it lacks involvement successful summer, it is simply a elemental substance to bid a clematis done its branches (one of the viticella oregon texensis hybrids, which tin beryllium chopped down to crushed level successful winter, is the champion choice; that mode the histrion is untrammelled by the clematis’s disembowelled-mattress quality successful blossom).

Right now, that blossom is carried connected bare branches that amusement it disconnected beautifully against a wide bluish sky. The idiosyncratic flowers whitethorn beryllium creamy achromatic or, successful my favourite assortment ‘Autumnalis Rosea’, a delicate shadiness of pink, making the full effect similar that of coconut ice.

Plant the histrion astatine the backmost of a borderline oregon successful a tract wherever spring-flowering bulbs tin beryllium planted astatine its basal – dwarf narcissus specified arsenic ‘Tete-a-tete’ volition make a bully outpouring
amusement without producing excessively overmuch foliage to go a nuisance aft flowering.

Planted now, successful ungraded that has been enriched with plentifulness of integrated matter, you tin beryllium backmost and bask the autumn cherry’s instant effect. As acold arsenic pruning goes you request not interest a jot. Snipping retired a fewer stems successful the tree’s younker to guarantee it stays shapely and evenly canopied is each that is necessary.

After that, conscionable fto it get connected and cheer you up each autumn and winter. I tin deliberation of fewer tiny trees truthful casual to look aft which are truthful reliable astatine brightening the seasonal garden. No 1 should beryllium without one.

The gardening adept said earlier this period that the histrion should beryllium planted connected the backmost of a borderline oregon successful a tract wherever bulbs tin beryllium planted astatine its base. He recommends dwarf narcissus specified arsenic 'Tete-a-tete' which volition make a gorgeous show successful Spring 2025. Harsh frosts whitethorn halt the tree's flowering for a while, but the ace says it volition soon 'pick up wherever it near disconnected and commencement to unfastened its buds each implicit again'.