How to create your own cherry blossom season

Seeking some floral fanfare?

We all love cherry blossom season, or sakura season, as it is referred to in Japan, from where most of these flowering beauties originate. From early April onwards we enjoy the trees festooned with pink or white petals depending on the variety, which fall like nature’s beautiful and pure confetti after a few short days.

But keep your eyes open during this month and next for the winter-flowering cherries which give of their best before the leaves emerge during mid and late winter. These beauties brighten up our landscape like horticultural light bulbs announcing that spring is well and truly on the way.