Description

A highly ornamental but rather sensitive tree for landscape use, featuring very showy, pink double flowers in spring, before the leaves, on an upright vase form; great as a landscape accent or screening

Landscape Attributes

Klara Meyer Flowering Peach is a deciduous tree with a more or less rounded 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.

Klara Meyer Flowering Peach is recommended for the following landscape applications;

Planting & Growing

Klara Meyer Flowering Peach will grow to be about 15 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 15 feet. It has a low canopy with a typical clearance of 2 feet from the ground, and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a fast rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 40 years or more.

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, and will benefit from being planted in a relatively sheltered location. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.