I'm looking for a tree.

[Warpig]

I think I've made up my mind, on what I want to try next! The problem is I don't know what it is.

I'm looking for a good deciduous tree that flowers in the winter. Zone is a factor but where I am seems to sit about average for most. What would be some trees to look in too?

 

[Cadillactaste]

A zone would really help...so one understands winter care needed as well. Ume bloom as such. Quince are somewhat early in blooms. My chojubai are blooming now.

 

[Warpig]

A zone would really help...so one understands winter care needed as well. Ume bloom as such. Quince are somewhat early in blooms. My chojubai are blooming now.

Yes, I just meant zone 6 seems to be middle ground for most trees.

 

[Adair M]

I think I've made up my mind, on what I want to try next! The problem is I don't know what it is.

I'm looking for a good deciduous tree that flowers in the winter. Zone is a factor but where I am seems to sit about average for most. What would be some trees to look in too?

Ume bloom in the winter, but they’re pretty ugly the other 50 weeks of the year!

 

[Warpig]

My chojubai are blooming now.

Hmm not a bad tree (not yours, just looking them up in general). They are alot more compact then the Umes.

 

[Cadillactaste]

Winter Jasmine?

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[Warpig]

Winter Jasmine?

DaSu Bonsai Studios : Finished Bonsai

Bonsai and related bonsai items for the beginner to the zen art master.

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Now those I'm really loving, thank you.

I can see me getting one of these soon or atleast looking into them more.

 

[Crimsontide1970]

Have you thought about crabapple. Flowers. Fruit fall color. Taper and ramification can be a challenge. Grows fast

 

[Cadillactaste]

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Now those I'm really loving, thank you.

I can see me getting one of these soon or atleast looking into them more.

I have been talking myself out of the one for awhile. I keep telling myself I have a forsythia. And it also blooms yellow.

You are quite welcome!

 

[Warpig]

Have you thought about crabapple. Flowers. Fruit fall color. Taper and ramification can be a challenge. Grows fast

I have and do like them. But I have some seedlings that @Mike Hennigan was offering awhile back coming when it's time so I feel like that role is covered for now.

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

Late Autumn, into winter, occasionally into December, after snow fall, Witch Hazel, Hamamelis virginiana. Very cold hardy, through zone 4. Yellow thread like flowers contrast nicely against black bark.

Chojubai, and several other Chaenomeles cultivars, all tend to bloom off and on year round. Main flush is very early spring. 'Toyo Nishiki', 'Minerva', 'Double Take Scarlet', 'Iwai Nishiki', 'Choraku' and others are all a little larger growing than 'Chojubai' which makes them more winter hardy.

Ume of course. Culinary apricot and culinary plums flower before leaves, not as early as Ume, but earlier than other spring blooming shrubs. They make decent bonsai, but like Ume, do tend to be ugly most of the year.

 

[M. Frary]

Christmas cactus.
Poinsettia.

 

[ABCarve]

Witch hazel Hamamelis intermedia

 

[Cadillactaste]

Witch hazel...is pretty cool in bloom too. We have one down by our garage. The neighbor who loves taking down trees...is always asking to remove. But it's a nice smaller tree with showy flowers. So it stays. I think Valavanis shared one before...that was bonsai.

 

[ABCarve]

Not much to look at when it’s growing but blooming is a great respite from winter blues. This is actually blooming right now from a warm spell we’ve had. Normally blooms in late February. There are many varieties of different colors. I have “ Birgit” which red, Brotzman bicolor and this one is “Jelena”.

 

[Warpig]

Thanks for all the images. I think I'm sold on those winter jasmine tho . Going to have to see what I can find around here.

 

[Cadillactaste]

Thanks for all the images. I think I'm sold on those winter jasmine tho . Going to have to see what I can find around here.

My Thuja rock planting came from the link I shared with the trees. They have healthy trees.

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

Witch hazel, there are several that are common in the USA.

Hamamelis virginiana - is the common autumn & early winter flowering witch hazel, native to most of eastern half of North America. Only color is light yellow to a darker golden yellow. Hardy through zone 4, possibly into warmer parts of zone 3.

Hamamelis vernalis - native to Ozark Plateau, Missouri, Oklahoma, & Arkansas. Begins blooming mid-winter through early spring, hence the name "vernalis" meaning ''spring". Color includes oranges and reds.

Hamamelis x intermedia - available from the nursery trade, it is hybrid (H. japonica x H. mollis)
This hybrids has larger flowers, in a range of colors, and a range of blooming times, mostly late winter or early spring. Each named cultivar has its specific time. Colors from bright gold through vivid red depending on which cultivar is chosen.

The H. vernalis and H. x intermedia are hardy through zone 6 with some cultivars being hardy into zone 5, some are not hardy in zone 5.