The purple-red colour makes a superb backdrop for hot red, yellow and orange colours. In summer, it looks like a small copper beech tree and makes a good substitute where a copper beech would be too large. It is easily fitted into most available spaces. Purple plum is a good garden tree because it is relatively small. Darker in leaf colour and rich pink flower colour is the lovely 'Nigra'. The most common is Prunus cerasifera 'Pissardii', which has purple leaves and pale pink flowers. There are several varieties with purple leaves, some darker than others. The most commonly grown forms are the purple-leaved varieties, which is the reason for the name 'purple plum'. The original species has green leaves and pure white flowers, often taken to be blackthorn, although it has larger flowers and flowers several weeks before the wild blackthorn. The flowers are carried on bare branches and set off nicely by the dark-coloured bark. It has smallish flowers as cherry trees go but they are very pretty, a flat cup-shape with the petals separated. It is part of the cherry family and most people take it to be a cherry. In early February, it opens its flower buds and over a period of about three weeks puts on a great show of flowers. Some years it is a little earlier, others a couple of weeks later.
This year, despite the mildness of the winter, it is pretty much on time. PURPLE plum is one of the first trees to flower in spring.
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