Many of the garden trees cultivated today show a more or less lavish white blossom splendor in spring. We introduce you to the most beautiful species for small and large gardens.
The Manna ash has flaky white flowers
Garden trees with magnificent white flowers
If you are explicitly looking for a tree with white flowers for your garden at home, you are spoiled for choice. Below we have put together some of the more common and unusual trees and shrubs for you. In addition to the ones listed here, most fruit trees also flower white.
Blossom dogwood or flower dogwood (Cornus florida)
Growth form and height: Tree or shrub up to ten meters high, often with several trunks
Leaves: Deciduous, turning scarlet in autumn
Flowering period: May to June
Snowdrop Tree (Halesia carolina)
Growth form and height: up to 18 meters high, small tree or shrub
Leaves: deciduous, late autumn colors (yellow to yellow-green)
Flowering time: April to May
Flower or Manna Ash (Fraxinus ornus)
Growth form and height: up to ten meters high small tree
Leaves: deciduous
Flowering time: April to June
Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia)
Growth form and height: up to ten meters high, small tree or shrub
Leaves: deciduous, golden-yellow in autumn
Flowering period: May and June
Quince (Cydonia oblonga)
Growth form and height: Small tree or shrub up to six meters high
Leaves: deciduous
Flowering period: May and June
Judas tree (Cercis siliquastrum)
Growth form and height: small tree or shrub up to eight meters high
Leaves: deciduous
Flowering time: March to May, only a few white flowering garden forms
Almond tree (Prunus dulcis)
Growth form and height: Small tree up to ten meters tall with a broad crown
Leaves: deciduous
Flowering period: March to April, sometimes pink flowers
Service Tree (Sorbus domestica)
Growth form and height: up to 20 meters high tree, short trunk
Leaves: deciduous, golden-yellow in autumn
Flowering time: March
Handkerchief tree (Davidia involucrata)
Growth habit and height: Tree up to approx. 20 meters high
Leaves: deciduous
Flowering time: March
Trumpet tree (Catalpa bignonioides)
Growth habit and height: tree up to approx. 18 meters high, short trunk
Leaves: deciduous, yellow in autumn
Flowering period: June to July
Tulip magnolia (Magnolia x soulangeana)
Growth form and height: small tree up to ten meters tall, short stem
Leaves: deciduous, yellow in autumn
Flowering time: April to May
Wild cherry (Prunus avium)
Growth habit and height: Tree up to approx. 30 meters high
Leaves: deciduous, yellow in autumn
Flowering time: April to May
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If a pure white flower garden is too boring for you, you can plant yellow and pink flowering trees.