Description

A colorful front yard accent tree for the average home landscape, featuring a cloud of light pink flowers in spring and deep purple foliage all season long, ornamental growth habit, hardier and more compact than similar selections of this species

Landscape Attributes

Newport Plum is a deciduous tree with a shapely oval form. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

Newport Plum is recommended for the following landscape applications;

Planting & Growing

Newport Plum will grow to be about 20 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 20 feet. It has a low canopy with a typical clearance of 3 feet from the ground, and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 30 years.

This tree should only be grown in full sunlight. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.