Spring Featured Plants 

A selection of Amherst Nurseries' springtime favorites.

Flowering Crabapple 'Donald Wyman'

• 15-20' tall x 15-20' wide
• Zone 4a - 8b
• Dark pink buds open into large white flowers in spring, which cover the entire tree
• Beautiful cooper colored bark
• Small green fruit ripen to dark red in fall
• Highly disease resistant 

Hawthorne 'Crimson Cloud' (Crateagus laevigata 'Crimson Cloud')

• 25' tall x 20' wide
• Fragrant clusters of dark prink flowers with white centers in spring
• Small clusters of tiny, red, shinny fruit in fall, which attract birds
• Thornless variety that is resistant to leaf blight
• Relatively drought tolerant once established

Flowering Pear 'Aristocrat' (Pyrus calleryana 'Aristocrat')

• 35-40' tall x 35-40' wide
• Hardy to Zone 4
• Produces an abundance of white flowers in the spring
• Brilliant red to orange-red fall foliage
• Beautiful goldish colored bark
• Sturdy limbs that will not break in the wind like it's cousin the Bradford Pear
• Produces small kiwi shaped, brown fruit in the fall; that is no larger than a pea and loved by birds.