Description:

An attractive tall spring flowering accent shrub, featuring light pink flowers before the leaves with an extended period of bloom, dense, shrubby habit of growth; needs full sun and well-drained soil

Ornamental Features

Hally Jolivette Flowering Cherry is draped in stunning clusters of shell pink flowers along the branches in mid spring, which emerge from distinctive pink flower buds before the leaves. It has dark green deciduous foliage which emerges coppery-bronze in spring. The pointy leaves turn an outstanding coppery-bronze in the fall. The smooth dark red bark adds an interesting dimension to the landscape.

Landscape Attributes

Hally Jolivette Flowering Cherry is a dense multi-stemmed deciduous tree with a more or less rounded form. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other landscape plants with less refined foliage.

This is a relatively low maintenance tree, and is best pruned in late winter once the threat of extreme cold has passed. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Hally Jolivette Flowering Cherry is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Accent
• Hedges/Screening
• General Garden Use

Planting & Growing

Hally Jolivette Flowering Cherry will grow to be about 15 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 12 feet. It has a low canopy with a typical clearance of 2 feet from the ground, and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a fast rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 40 years or more.

This tree should only be grown in full sunlight. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil pH, but grows best in rich soils. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.