One tree that is blooming everywhere is the ornamental purple leaf plum. This is one of my favorite trees, due to its purple/pink blooms and dark leaf color but this lovely tree does come with ...

When should I spray my purple-leaf plum tree for the mites and disease they seem to get every year? A: That is a problem-prone tree, in my opinion. The dark leaves are nice, but it usually ends up ...

‘The tree is ‘Prunus cerasifera ‘Krauter Vesuvius’ – ‘K.V.’ Purple-leaf plum. Carl Krauter of Bakersfield introduced this darkest of the purple leafed plums in 1957, hence the nam ...

Her other plum tree, with its soft pink flowers, blooms the same time as the Green Gage Plum but is an ornamental variety; possibly a Purple Leaf Plum. The beautiful, dark reddish, plum-colored ...

S.C., Albuquerque The two most planted trees in this area that fit that description would be the purple leaf plum, or ornamental ... an uncluttered view of the tree structure, planting the seed ...

I want to plant a more drought-tolerant, low-maintenance small tree. Any suggestions? A: I am guessing that was a purple leaf plum, one of the red leaf types of myrobalan plums. When I was growing ...

Since it is not prospering do you think we should start over with another tree?” Sounds like a do-over to me. Flowering plum trees, also called purple-leaf plum trees, are ornamental trees ...

We have a purple leaf plum shrub in our yard out on the Redlands ... but it sometimes isn't the whole solution. Peach tree borer is a common culprit, but if there's no gummy sap (or dried up ...

The 'Italian Prune,' a self-fertile European plum, is a terrific starter tree that makes loads of sweet, bluish-purple fruit ...