THREE CHERRY TREES TO PLANT NOW

Inspired by the emerging blossom? You can still plant bare-root trees in March and pot-grown trees any time

PRUNUS ‘MORELLO’

An acid cherry grown primarily for its fruit (best cooked in jams or pies), it also has an attractive show of white blossom in spring. Available on different rootstocks to help you control the size.

From £21.95 (orangepippintrees.co.uk).

PRUNUS ‘SHOSAR’

This relatively small, upright tree is useful for spots where you need height but haven’t much width. Flowering in late March, it bears rosy-pink flowers with a darker eye and has good autumn

colour, too. £55 (burncoose.co.uk).

PRUNUS ‘ TA I HAKU’

Often growing wider than it is high and with clusters of large blossoms of the purest white, this will light up any garden or planting scheme. Emerging leaves are an attractive bronze.

Approx £78 (ornamental-trees.co.uk).