One of our native Cherry trees, this one is also known as Wild Cherry or Gean. It can become a relatively large tree (for a Cherry). It has lovely white blossom in April followed by small cherries, much in demand by birds, which ripen in July.

A cultivar of our native Wild Cherry, Plena has double white flowers, can become a large tree, and is one of the later Cherries to flower in April.

Our only truly native Maple, this is a long-lived small to medium sized tree with a compact, rounded crown. Look out for the small, lobed leaves.

Discrete yellow-green flowers emerge with new leaves in spring. Leaves turn a fine yellow colour in the autumn.

Hornbeams are fine attractive trees that eventually become quite large, but not quite as big as beech trees.

Look out for fluted, muscular trunks and serrated oval leaves, similar to beech. Drooping clusters of winged nuts become quite conspicuous in the autumn.

Apple trees are often managed to maximise fruit production, so they usually remain relatively small. Their pink-tinged white blossom in spring can rival that of cherry, and the fruit ripens through the summer, often ripening in late September.

There are dozens of different varieties that might offer whiter blossom, earlier fruit, and apples to suit every palate.

A dessert apple producing a heavy and regular fruit crop.

The domestic pear tree has the potential to become a large tree which can produce mountains of fruit.

Their white spring blossom rivals that of apples and cherries, and when they are not in flower, look out for small glossy leaves and deeply fissured bark on older trees.

A small cooking pear.