Flowering Cherry ‘Okame’

‘Okame’ opens the spring season in Birmingham — carmine-pink flowers crowd its bare branches in late winter, weeks ahead of other cherries, followed by clean foliage and bronze-orange fall color on a neat, upright tree.

Full sun and well-drained soil; it's among the most heat-tolerant flowering cherries, which is why it thrives here. Beautiful as a lawn specimen or in a blooming row along a drive.