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Article: A cherry of an idea for your landscape.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune
- Article date:
- January 6, 2005
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Byline: Norman Winter
Many garden centers are in the process of unloading dormant trees ready for planting. Colder areas will have to wait. But when your season hits why not consider an ornamental cherry.
Most of us can hardly wait until the first blooms announce that spring is just around the corner. Over the holidays, I saw a flowering quince with several coral-colored blossoms already open, but you need a Taiwan flowering cherry if you really want to herald the approaching spring.
As the name suggests, the Taiwan flowering cherry is from the island of Formosa, as well as China and the Ryukyu Islands off Japan. It is sometimes called the ...