Spring Featured Plants
A selection of Amherst Nurseries' springtime favorites.
Flowering Crabapple 'Donald Wyman'
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15-20' tall x 15-20' wide
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Zone 4a - 8b
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Dark pink buds open into large white flowers in spring, which cover the entire tree
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Beautiful cooper colored bark
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Small green fruit ripen to dark red in fall
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Highly disease resistant
Hawthorne 'Crimson Cloud' (Crateagus laevigata 'Crimson Cloud')
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25' tall x 20' wide
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Fragrant clusters of dark prink flowers with white centers in spring
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Small clusters of tiny, red, shinny fruit in fall, which attract birds
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Thornless variety that is resistant to leaf blight
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Relatively drought tolerant once established
Flowering Pear 'Aristocrat' (Pyrus calleryana 'Aristocrat')
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35-40' tall x 35-40' wide
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Hardy to Zone 4
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Produces an abundance of white flowers in the spring
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Brilliant red to orange-red fall foliage
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Beautiful goldish colored bark
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Sturdy limbs that will not break in the wind like it's cousin the Bradford Pear
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Produces small kiwi shaped, brown fruit in the fall; that is no larger than a pea and loved by birds.