Here are beautiful flowering trees that will brighten up your yard.

Their interesting branching patterns show up best in winter after their leaves have dropped.

The Yoshino cherry tree (Prunus x yedoensis) is an amazing hybrid specimen with light pink blooms.

Star magnolia tree branches with white star-shaped flowers in sunlight

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Weeping cherries need to be kept moist, especially in drought conditions.

This can beachieved by using mulcharound the base of the tree.

Hawthorn

Hawthorn trees are one of the few flowering trees that provide color past early to mid-spring.

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This tree typically blooms in late spring to early summer.

Plants in theCrataegusgenus can bloom in pink, white, or red.

Birds eat their berries in fall or winter.

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This tree is slightly fussy, requiring a sheltered location and attention to a variety of pests and diseases.

Warning

All parts of a golden chain tree are toxic to people, dogs, and cats.

Beautiful pea-like white flowers adorn the branches in the early spring before the foliage emerges.

Yoshino cherry tree in a backyard.

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and cultivators) that are prized for their showy blooms and tart fruits.

Most cultivators will only grow to be between 15 to 20 feet tall.

They are native to the Southeastern United States and are hardy in zones 6 to 10.

Weeping cherry tree with drooping branches and light pink flowers against blue skies

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Pear trees provide gorgeous fall foliage too.

It features delicate green foliage and bright yellow flowers in the spring and summer.

Red Buckeye

Another famous native tree is the red buckeye (Aesculus pavia).

Kwanzan and yoshino cherry trees with small pink flowers and buds on branch

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It does best in full sun and sandy, well-drained soils.

It can be grown as a shrub or tree.

Depending on how its trained, it can grow between 30 to 40 feet tall at maturity.

Saucer magnolia trees with bright pink saucer-like flowers on thin branches

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Japanese Stewartia

Add somefall bloomsto your landscape with the Japanese stewartia (Stewartia pseudocamellia).

This small tree develops small cup-shaped flowers in the summer that last until the fall.

Acatalpais an alternative with quite large flowers.

Eastern redbud tree with pinkish-purple flowers on long bare branches

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If you’re hoping for months of color, plant a crepe myrtle.

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Hawthorn tree with pink blossoms.

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Laburnum

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Crape myrtle tree branches with bright pink flowers clustered near leaves

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Oklahoma redbud tree.

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White Eastern Redbud tree.

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Higan cherry tree.

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Fringe tree flowers.

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Flowering crab apple trees.

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Southern magnolia tree.

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Kousa dogwood tree flowers.

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Flowering almond tree.

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Flowering juneberry tree.

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Flowering pear tree.

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Jerusalem Thorn tree in bloom.

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Red Buckeye tree.

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Flowering Acacia tree.

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Yellow flowering Magnolia.

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Japanese snowbell flowering tree.

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Carolina silverbell flowering tree.

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Japanese Stewartia flowering tree.

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Japanese lilac tree flowers.

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Flowering tulip tree.

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