Article: Blooms on high: choose the right flowering cherry for your garden.(PLANTING)

Few trees can beat flowering cherries for their beauty, especially in early spring. That's when a froth of pink or white blooms cloaks their branches, scenting the air around them with a delicate fragrance.

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But there's more to flowering cherries than their blooms. These trees now come in more shapes and sizes than any other spring-blooming trees--and fall color on a few kinds is sensational. For all these attributes, we have Japanese horticulturists to thank: Over the centuries, they've developed an exquisite range of single- and double-flowered varieties in pink, white, and bicolors. They've given us columnar and weeping forms, ...

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