#Cherry tree purple leaves full

#Cherry tree purple leaves full

Ideally, you should plant the purple leaf sand cherry in full to partial sun exposure in moist, well-draining soil. Sand cherry is sensitive to being transplanted in the autumn, so extra care should be taken in amending the soil, fertilizing, mulching heavily, and watering thoroughly. Sand cherry is readily available through the local nursery and/or propagated via rooted stem cuttings. So how do you grow a purple leaf sand cherry? This specimen is urban tolerant and establishes rapidly to lend a brilliant pop of color to the landscape. The multiple gray-brown trunks are prone to trunk fissuring and cankers, which ooze sap. The innocuous blooms become small black-purple fruit barely noticeable without contrast to the purple foliage in July. The stunning 2-inch (5 cm.) long, serrated foliage emerges crimson-purple and remains throughout the summer, gradually changing to a green-bronze hue in the fall.Īround early spring, the plant’s pink buds open into whitish-pink flowers – the same time as the red foliage. This purplish-red leafed plant has an oval growth habit gradually maturing into an arched form and opening out from the center of the shrub. The parent plants of sandcherry bush hail from Western Asia ( Prunus cerasifera) and the Northeastern United States ( Prunus pumila). The shrub grows at a moderate rate and is suitable in USDA zones 2-8.

This Prunus hybrid is useful as an ornamental specimen due to its beautiful red, maroon, or purple foliage. The “x” is indicative of the shrub’s hybridism. Prunus is Latin for ‘plum’ while cistena is the Sioux word for ‘baby’ in reference to its smallish size. Purple leaf sand cherry ( Prunus x cistena) is a member of the Rose family. This easy care plant makes a great addition to the landscape. Plum leaf sand cherry, also referred to as purple leaf sand cherry plants, is a medium sized ornamental shrub or small tree that when mature reaches a height of approximately 8 feet (2.5 m.) tall by 8 feet (2.5 m.) wide.