| wering tree is best planted for spring blooming in | | | | red, pink, white, lavender, and purple during the |
| the fall when dormant, however, container | | | | summer and fall. Some crape myrtle flowering |
| flowering trees can be planted any season, but | | | | trees will rebloom and others flower over a period |
| preferably fall and winter is best. Gardeners can | | | | of 90 days. |
| buy many colors of flowering trees: red, white, | | | | Flowering crabapple trees bloom mainly in the |
| yellow, peach, pink, plum, lavender, blue, and | | | | spring in flower colors of white, red, peach, plum, |
| apricot. You can buy a flowering tree that can | | | | and apricot. Not only are the large blooms |
| bloom during any season: fall flowering, winter | | | | fragrant on the flowering crabapple tree, but plum |
| flowering, and spring flowering when most trees | | | | red fruit grows for wildlife during the fall. The fruit |
| bloom, and then, summer flowering. The weather | | | | of the flowering crabapple tree can be made into |
| is a determining factor in tree flowering; some | | | | crabapple jam or crabapple jelly. |
| trees require chilling, yet other flowering trees | | | | Flowering cherry trees are native (Prunus |
| require hot, humid temperatures. The flowering | | | | caroliniana) to the U.S., and the beautiful Japanese |
| dogwood tree, Cornus florida, blooms in Florida in | | | | Kwanzan and Yoshino, flowering cherry, hybrid |
| March, but it can flower in Tennessee in April, | | | | trees blossom in Washington, D.C. During the |
| largely because of the temperature differences. A | | | | Spring as an exciting American National Treasure. |
| flowering apricot tree, Prunus mume, can bloom in | | | | Civic pageants are held to celebrate Spring |
| Georgia in January, but in Illinois, the flowering is | | | | festivals at the Nation's Capitol, Washington, D.C. |
| delayed until April or May, depending on the large | | | | at Macon, Ga., and other cities and are scheduled |
| temperature difference. Flowering cherry trees | | | | to begin with the blossoming of the Japanese, |
| bloom in red, pink, and white colors, and some | | | | flowering cherry tree. Grafted flowering, crabapple |
| varieties bloom over a period of one to two | | | | trees bloom with fully red, white or pink flowers |
| months. | | | | very early in the Spring. Flowering dogwood trees |
| Flowering magnolia trees of the Japanese cultivar, | | | | bloom to announce the arrival of spring in colors |
| Magnolia stellata, and Magnolia x soulangiana can | | | | of red, white or pink. Flowering plum trees are |
| bloom in winter, with colors of red, white, pink, | | | | fragrant and white in native or grafted forms, |
| and purple, yet the Southern flowering magnolia | | | | developed as Japanese hybrid cultivars. |
| tree, Magnolia grandiflora, blooms during the | | | | Flowering pear trees are fully covered with white, |
| summer with large, white, fragrant flowers. The | | | | one-inch flowers as grafted hybrids developed by |
| Sweetbay flowering magnolia, Magnolia virginiana, | | | | scientists to grow in Northern and Southern |
| blooms in summer and fall. Magnolia flowering | | | | gardens. Fall and Winter flowering trees, such as |
| trees can bloom any month of the year, some | | | | camellia, cassia and apricot, bloom in seasons |
| evergreen, some deciduous. | | | | where color and fragrance are rare. Flowering |
| Flowering crape myrtle (crepe myrtle) trees have | | | | peach trees are available to buy in colors of red, |
| been hybridized to flower in spectacular colors of | | | | white, pink and peppermint. |