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