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