Bonsai Cherry Trees: Fruit Trees For The Home
The Japanese flowering cherry trees for sale on this page, do not originate in japan but are grown and shaped into a bonsai tree style. Here are three flowering bonsai cherry trees, surinam cherry, brush cherry and the barbados cherry, Each bonsai cherry tree produces beautiful flowers and fruit.
Weeping cherry tree ideal for apartments (top pick)
From the Caribbean islands, most commonly Barbados and Curacao, this small ornamental tree has wispy, drooping branches that fall lazily like a weeping willow tree. These bonsai cherry trees grow best indoors, but can be grown outdoors in areas that are warm like southern Florida, in a mildly acidic soil.
Click here for details about this weeping cherry tree – The flowers are a rose pink color, often several together in a cyme. Its fruit is small and it has a weeping growth habit if the branches are allowed to elongate. The round edible fruits are borne singly or in 2′s or 3′s and are bright red with glossy skin. The fruit is very juicy and extremely high in ascorbic acid. The barbados weeping cherry tree pictured here is 7 years old and stands 7 inches tall. For proper growth indoors a humidity tray is recommended.
Brush Cherry tree produces sweet bright red cherries
This bonsai cherry tree for sale is a three tree forest grouping a very popular indoor bonsai that produces puffy pink and white flowers.
Click here for details about this brush bonsai cherry tree – This plant is native to Florida, this type of tree is an evergreen variety and is hearty enough to grow outdoors, even in slightly cooler climates, or indoors so long as there is an ample light source like large unblocked windows.
Surinam bonsai cherry tree
Growing zone is best in warm climates of the southern united states, but can be grown quite successfully indoors. This tree has reddish, flaking bark with deep green leaves that grow in pairs. In the spring, the trees sport compact fragrant white flowers that transition to small red and flavorful cherries.
The plant pictured here is 16 years old and stands 16 inches tall. It is a good choice as a small tree for a small garden.
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Bonsai cherry trees: Watering, Humidity, Soil and Fertilizer
What I like most about these dwarf cherry trees is that they grow well in both direct and indirect sunlight. This plant does need protection from hot mid-day sun. Hot direct sunlight coming through a window can burn the leaves. When deciding on which temperature is best to grow your bonsai cherry trees in, remember each variety has different needs and that they are sub tropical plants. Be sure to read the care instructions of each individual plant, generally if your the leaves on the tree are starting to wilt if is most likely getting too much sun and is over heating.
Like most indoor bonsai trees, you should not over water bonsai cherry trees, which can cause root problems and destroy your tree. You should test the soil with your finger or a water meter to feel how dry the soil is. If you find that the soil is dry about a half an inch below the surface then it probably needs water. During the summer months when the weather is hot and dry the tree will need more water than normally, this of course is reversed in the winter. Also, when your cherry tree is blossoming, don’t get the flowers wet if you are spraying them, this can damage the flowers and invite certain diseases.
To help keep the humidity levels up it is recommended you use a humidity water tray. Put a little water into the tray and let the water evaporate up through the plant.
During the growing season which in most cases will be from spring to fall you should feed bonsai cherry trees with a water soluble fertilizer every two weeks, preferably with organic bonsai tree liquid fertilizer. If you do use chemical fertilizer then I would cut this down or dilute it to at least half strength. This should be done before the tree flowers. There is more information here about indoor bonsai tree care
