Amateur Gardening

What to plant for Blossom in a small garden

THE best thing about springtime has to be the blossom – those snowy white and pink blooms that cling to the bare branches of apple, plum and cherry trees like fleece. And happily, you don’t need an orchard to enjoy it.

The trick to squeezing blossom into even the tiniest garden is to select the right (and by that I mean compact) plants. If you want a flowering cherry, pick a small one. Consider a variety of the compact Fuji cherry (Prunus incisa) such as ‘Kojono-mai’ (white) or ’Okamé’, a single pink

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