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Kursar ornamental cherry trees

Prunus
  • Flowering month: March
  • Blossom colour: Pink
  • Awards: RHS AGM (former) 1993
  • Awards: RHS AM 1952

Kursar is the star of the early-season flowering cherries, and usually the first to flower. It features an intense display of large single deep-pink blossom, borne on bare branches in late February and early March - when most other trees are still completely dormant.

The blossom is quickly followed by young bronze leaves.

The tree grows with a neat tidy compact habit, and is one of the more cold-hardy flowering cherries.

While spring is the main event, as it is for most flowering cherries, Kursar also offers value in the autumn too - the leaves take on red - gold tints.

Kursar ornamental cherry trees for sale

Pot-grown

All our pot-grown trees are grown for us to our specification by the Frank P Matthews nursery.

All pot-grown trees are suitable for planting out in the garden, some are suitable for growing in containers.

  • PG12-year 12L pot-grown tree Semi-vigorous rootstock£71.50< 5 in stock
    Grown for us by Frank P Matthews nursery
    Medium tree (2m-3m after 10 years)

Bare-root

  • BR11-year bare-root treeSemi-vigorous rootstock£46.50
    Medium tree (2m-3m after 10 years)
    Out of stock
    Please try next season
  • BR22-year bare-root treeSemi-vigorous rootstock£56.50
    Medium tree (2m-3m after 10 years)
    Out of stock
    Please try next season

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Tree specification

Photos of trees as supplied | Tree sizes and forms

Next deliveries

Order now for delivery from week commencing 28th April.

Delivery charges

Delivery for a single tree starts at £9.95, it is calculated based on your postcode.

History

Kursar is one of the many flowering cherries developed by Captain Collingwood Ingram, a 20th century English enthusiast who became the leading western authority on the Japanese Flowering Cherries. It is a hybrid of Prunus campanulata (the Formosan cherry) and Prunus nipponica var kurilensis (named with reference to the Kurile islands, lying to the north east of Japan). It inherits many of the characteristics of the Fomosan cherry, notably the small upright form and dark pink blossom - but is much hardier.

Collingwood Ingram named his new variety 'Kursar', a combination of Prunus kurilensis and another flowering cherry species, Prunus sargentii - the two species he thought he had crossed when raising it. He later realised he had made a mistake - but kept the name.


Kursar characteristics

Growing

  • Gardening skillBeginner
  • Climate suitabilityTemperate climatesMild damp climatesWarm climates

Problems

  • Disease resistanceGood

Identification

  • Country of originUnited Kingdom
  • Period of origin1900 - 1949
  • Flowering monthMarch
  • Blossom colourPink
  • AwardsRHS AMRHS AGM (former)

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When you buy your fruit tree from Orange Pippin Fruit Trees we guarantee it for the first season in your garden whilst it gets established. If it doesn't grow successfully, we'll either replace it the following season or offer a refund - subject to some conditions. Find out more.


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