Ornamental Cherry Tree Fruit. In fact a new trend is cropping up in showcasing tasty high yield fruit trees as ornamentals in the garden and landscape. There are plenty of pear apple plum and cherry trees that are cultivated equally for their taste and their appearance.
Genetic dwarf and standard-size tart-cherry trees produce about 75 pounds of fruit each season but the birds will steal all of the cherries before they. Sweet cherry trees will start fruiting somewhere between four and seven years old while sour cherry trees will fruit once they are between three and five years old. Some trees however are bred as ornamentals and produce fruit more as an afterthought.
The strictly ornamental genus of cherry trees is the prunus.
Most ornamental cherry trees are bred more for the lovely blossoms than the edible fruit. However with the ornamental varieties of cherry blossom that are commonly planted there are multiple good reasons why. Additionally are cherry blossom berries poisonous. Its one of the oldest cultivated cherry trees in Japan and former First Lady Helen Herron Taft is believed to have planted the first one in DC.
