Snow Fountains® Weeping Cherry Tree

Snow Fountains® Weeping Cherry Treebute: A Beautiful and Lasting Pet Memorial

The Snow Fountains® Weeping Cherry tree is a striking ornamental tree, celebrated for its clean, graceful form and cascading branches adorned with bright white spring blossoms. With its manageable size and elegant shape, it’s an excellent choice for those seeking a living memorial for a pet that is both beautiful and easy to care for.

Each Treebute Kit includes everything needed to plant a memorial tree for your pet at home. Many people find the act of planting and tending to something living brings a quiet sense of comfort and forward motion. Each spring when the white blossoms return, cascading like a fountain of snow, you'll be reminded that love, like spring, endures. This complete memorial tree kit is designed to be simple and meaningful at home.

Why You’ll Love the Snow Fountains Weeping Cherry

• Spring Beauty: In early spring, before the leaves appear, every arching branch becomes covered with pure white flowers that emerge from soft pink buds. The effect is stunning - like watching snow cascade in slow motion. These fragrant blossoms last for approximately three weeks, drawing hummingbirds and butterflies to your garden and giving you an extended season to sit with your memories.
• Elegant Form: The Snow Fountains' weeping branches cascade gracefully downward, "kissing the ground" as they grow. There's something deeply moving about a tree that bows - it creates a sense of reverence, a quiet space beneath its canopy.
• Compact Size: At 8-15 feet tall and 6-12 feet wide, the Snow Fountains brings the dramatic beauty of a weeping cherry to spaces where larger varieties wouldn't fit. It's perfect for small yards, courtyards, patios, or as a focal point in a garden bed.
• Seasonal Interest: Spring brings the spectacular white blooms. Summer offers dark green foliage and graceful weeping form. Fall delivers a second show as the leaves turn golden-orange. And in winter, the elegant structure of the cascading branches remains visible - especially beautiful when dusted with snow or illuminated by outdoor lighting. This tree gives you something to appreciate in every season.
• A Three-Week Fountain of White Blossoms: In early spring, before the leaves appear, every arching branch becomes covered with pure white flowers that emerge from soft pink buds. The effect is stunning - like watching snow cascade in slow motion. These fragrant blossoms last for approximately three weeks, drawing hummingbirds and butterflies to your garden.
• Ancient Japanese Heritage: In Japan, cherry blossoms carry profound meaning. The tradition of hanami - gathering beneath blooming trees with loved ones - goes back over a thousand years. And the Japanese concept of mono no aware ("the pathos of things") teaches that the fleeting beauty of cherry blossoms offers wisdom: to cherish what we love while we have it, to find meaning in impermanence, and to trust that spring always returns.
  

Each Treebute Kit Includes

     ✓ Hardy tribute tree (size you select)
      ✓ Step-by-step planting & watering care guide
      ✓ Personalized memorial message

➕ Optional Add-Ons (Customize Your Treebute Kit)

o    Planter (choose your style & size)
o    Premium potting mix (for indoor or patio planting)
o    Cremation-safe organic soil blend (for ashes, if/when you’re ready)
      Many customers plant without ashes  -  and that’s just as meaningful.

Everything arrives together, ready to plant

Nurturing Your Memorial Tree

• Light: Full sun (6+ hours) produces the best blooms and healthiest growth. Tolerates light shade but flowers most spectacularly in full sun.
• Water: Regular watering during the first growing season to establish roots. Once established, tolerates brief dry spells but appreciates supplemental water during extended drought.
• Pruning: Minimal pruning needed - mainly to remove any upward-growing shoots that break the weeping form. Prune after blooming finishes in spring.
• Soil & Drainage: Prefers well-drained soil. If your soil drains poorly, plant on a raised mound (12-18 inches above soil line) to prevent root rot. 

Each moment noticing your tree - the first buds opening, blossoms drifting on the breeze - becomes a quiet act of remembrance

Optional: Plant with Pet Cremation Ashes - The Treebute® Difference

For those wishing to incorporate pet cremation ashes, your kit includes the option to add our Treebute® organic soil blend. This specially formulated mixture creates a safe, nurturing foundation for your tree - transforming ashes into living growth. It’s a gentle and healing option, if and when the time feels right. 

Your tree is meaningful with or without ashes - this is simply another way to honor someone you love.

Honor a Pet in a Way That Lives On

Losing a pet is really hard. Finding a meaningful way to honor your beloved pet can feel overwhelming. The Snow Fountains Weeping Cherry offers something timeless - a living tribute that combines elegance with meaning and provides beauty in every season. 

In Japan, people have gathered beneath cherry blossoms for over a thousand years to celebrate both the beauty and the impermanence of life - to remember that what we love is precious precisely because it doesn't last forever, and that spring, like love, always finds a way to return.

The act of planting creates meaning. The returning blossoms create memory. The sheltering branches create space to remember.