Snow Goose Japanese Flowering Cherry
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 5-8
- Spacing: 15-20'
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Deer Resistant: Yes
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Snow Goose Japanese Flowering Cherry is a small striking tree that is loaded with a blanket of showy white flowers in spring. Plant it near your window or porch to see first-hand as each branch becomes covered with white carnation-like flowers. Snow Goose Flowering Cherry can be planted as a valuable specimen tree for you to enjoy for many years. This tree has a nice upright habit and is an ideal tree for narrow spaces and the smaller home landscape. Plant a Snow Goose Japanese Cherry within a mixed border or along your driveway to create a dynamic spring show of snowy blooms that you will look forward to each year. A row of Snow Goose Japanese Cherry trees along your property border is a pleasant way to screen unsightly views or create a wall of privacy all season long.
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 5-8
- Spacing: 15-20'
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Deer Resistant: Yes
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The Story
Cherry Trees are loved the world over for their clouds of pink and white blossoms that erupt to declare that spring has arrived. In many cultures, their fleeting flowers symbolize the all-too-quickpassing of youth. This selection is most likely a hybrid between two Japanese species of Flowering Cherry. It originated at the nursery of a Dutchman, Albert Doorenbos, in 1970. No doubt he was struck by the plant’s distinctive, rigidly upright form—although it does get rounder with maturity (hey, it happens to the best of us).
The Details
Similar to the actual animal, this Snow Goose is a harbinger of spring! Loads of white flowers cover the branches in early spring, followed by dark green leaves. Foliage turns yellow in fall providing additional color to the copper-red peeling bark. Quite an eye-catcher!
How to Grow
Cherries have a reputation for being disease-prone and short-lived, which some of them deserve. Snow Goose fares better than most—it has good disease resistance, and one of its two parent species has a living example in Japan that’s 800 years old! Give this tree all-day sun and any kind of soil except one that stays wet. It tolerates the pollution and grime of urban life and will bring its fresh snow-white blossoms to the mean streets of the city. Its dense roots make underplanting difficult. Tough bulbs like daffodils can cope.
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Size B Trees:
6-8' tall. Grown in our #15 tree container at this size with stem caliper all of 1 1/2". Full canopy, thick branching - well structured.
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