Okame Japanese Cherry Blossom Trees Plants but colour is best in

but colour is best in the sun

A north-facing or east-facing wall is ideal: morning light with afternoon shade

not so good for Wales or the West of England where scab is more common

main trunk gradually splits apart and rots away

Okame Japanese Cherry Blossom Trees Plants but colour is best inOkame Japanese Cherry Blossom Trees Prunus Okame Cherry trees flower early, with red and pink blossom in March: after Accolade and before most other flowering cherries. The single, radiant pink blooms with purple red centres cover the tree before its leaves appear. In autumn, the leaves turn into a warm range of colours, from peachy yellow to flushed red. Okame is a short, bushy specimen tree that tends to branch low down. It can reach a height of