| A flowering tree is best planted for spring blooming in | | | | flower over a period of 90 days. Flowering crabapple |
| the fall when dormant, however, container flowering | | | | trees bloom mainly in the spring in flower colors of |
| trees can be planted any season, but preferably fall | | | | white, red, peach, plum, and apricot. Not only are the |
| and winter is best. Gardeners can buy many colors of | | | | large blooms fragrant on the flowering crabapple |
| flowering trees: red, white, yellow, peach, pink, plum, | | | | tree, but plum red fruit grows for wildlife during the |
| lavender, blue, and apricot. You can buy a flowering | | | | fall. The fruit of the flowering crabapple tree can be |
| tree that can bloom during any season: fall flowering, | | | | made into crabapple jam or crabapple jelly. Flowering |
| winter flowering, and spring flowering when most | | | | cherry trees are native (Prunus caroliniana) to the |
| trees bloom, and then, summer flowering. The | | | | U.S., and the beautiful Japanese Kwanzan and |
| weather is a determining factor in tree flowering; | | | | Yoshino, flowering cherry, hybrid trees blossom in |
| some trees require chilling, yet other flowering trees | | | | Washington, D.C. During the Spring as an exciting |
| require hot, humid temperatures. The flowering | | | | American National Treasure. Civic pageants are held |
| dogwood tree, Cornus florida, blooms in Florida in | | | | to celebrate Spring festivals at the Nation's Capitol, |
| March, but it can flower in Tennessee in April, largely | | | | Washington, D.C. at Macon, Ga., and other cities and |
| because of the temperature differences. A flowering | | | | are scheduled to begin with the blossoming of the |
| apricot tree, Prunus mume, can bloom in Georgia in | | | | Japanese, flowering cherry tree. Grafted flowering, |
| January, but in Illinois, the flowering is delayed until | | | | crabapple trees bloom with fully red, white or pink |
| April or May, depending on the large temperature | | | | flowers very early in the Spring. Flowering dogwood |
| difference. Flowering cherry trees bloom in red, pink, | | | | trees bloom to announce the arrival of spring in |
| and white colors, and some varieties bloom over a | | | | colors of red, white or pink. Flowering plum trees are |
| period of one to two months. Flowering magnolia | | | | fragrant and white in native or grafted forms, |
| trees of the Japanese cultivar, Magnolia stellata, and | | | | developed as Japanese hybrid cultivars. Flowering |
| Magnolia x soulangiana can bloom in winter, with | | | | pear trees are fully covered with white, one-inch |
| colors of red, white, pink, and purple, yet the | | | | flowers as grafted hybrids developed by scientists to |
| Southern flowering magnolia tree, Magnolia grandiflora, | | | | grow in Northern and Southern gardens. Fall and |
| blooms during the summer with large, white, fragrant | | | | Winter flowering trees, such as camellia, cassia and |
| flowers. The Sweetbay flowering magnolia, Magnolia | | | | apricot, bloom in seasons where color and fragrance |
| virginiana, blooms in summer and fall. Magnolia | | | | are rare. Flowering peach trees are available to buy in |
| flowering trees can bloom any month of the year, | | | | colors of red, white, pink and peppermint. |
| some evergreen, some deciduous. Flowering crape | | | | Patrick Malcolm, owner of TyTy Nursery, , has an |
| myrtle (crepe myrtle) trees have been hybridized to | | | | M.S. degree in Botany and has hybridized crinum lily, |
| flower in spectacular colors of red, pink, white, | | | | canna lily, and other rare flower bulbs for over 34 |
| lavender, and purple during the summer and fall. Some | | | | years. |
| crape myrtle flowering trees will rebloom and others | | | | |