PlantFiles: Weeping Cherry Tree, Weeping Higan Cherry
Prunus subhirtella

I love my mature Weeping Cherry tree. It blooms beautifully in small pink flowers in early-mid spring, then starts dropping the flowers from mid-late spring. The flowers are tiny, and disappear on their own in a few weeks, so it is not a messy tree like oak or maple. It has smaller, mint shaped leaves in green, with red tinges, which it drops in fall - these do requiring raking or vacuuming, but the volume is considerably less than an oak and is not a terribly large job. My only negative comment about this tree - is it can be considered invasive. It has sent up suckers or shoots all over my garden. It took me 5 years to identify this "weed" as my cherry tree. It's only a major issue in the spring, but pinching off these shoots so I don't eventually have a forest of cherry trees could be a full time job April through early June. It is a truly lovely tree though, just a bit of work to contain it.