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Snow Fountains® Weeping Cherry Tree

Snow Fountains® Weeping Cherry Tree

The Snow Fountains Weeping Cherry tree is beloved for its arching branches, delicate white spring blooms, and seasonal color. It symbolizes tenderness, remembrance, and the gentle return of beauty, making it a meaningful tree for honoring someone you love.

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Snow Fountains® Weeping Cherry Treebute Tree

A cascading tribute that transforms into a fountain of white blooms each spring.

The Snow Fountains® Weeping Cherry earns its name honestly, with long, arching branches that sweep toward the ground and cover themselves in pure white blossoms each spring. Its graceful, fountain-like form and mahogany-red bark keep it a striking focal point through every season, from spring bloom to fall's golden-orange foliage.

Each Treebute is a complete memorial tree kit designed to be planted at home, a hands-on ritual that many people find grounding and healing.

The act of planting gives your hands something purposeful to do and creates meaning, forming a living connection that continues to grow.


What Happens After You Order

Step 1

Your tree is prepared and shipped with care from our nursery.

Step 2

Your kit arrives ready to plant, with your healthy tree, care guide, and personalized memorial message.

Step 3

Follow the simple steps to plant your living memorial, whenever the time feels right.

Step 4

Care for your tree, and watch it grow over the years.

Why You'll Love the Snow Fountains® Weeping Cherry Tree

  • A true fountain of bloom: cascading branches cloak themselves entirely in pure white flowers for two to three weeks each spring, before the leaves appear.
  • A compact, graceful form: its small stature and weeping habit make it a fitting centerpiece for courtyards, patios, and smaller gardens.
  • Multi-season interest: dark green summer foliage turns golden-orange in fall, and its smooth, mahogany-red bark adds color through winter.


A Living Memorial That Grows With You

Finding a meaningful way to honor someone you love can feel overwhelming. A Treebute tree offers something different, a living expression of love that grows stronger each year. It gives your hands something to do and your heart something to hold.

The act of planting creates meaning. The growth creates hope. The tree creates a place to remember.

What Comes With Your Treebute Kit
  • Hardy tribute tree (size you select)
  • Step-by-step planting & watering care guide
  • Personalized memorial message

Optional Add-Ons (Customize Your Treebute Kit)

  • Planter (choose your style & size)
  • Premium potting mix (for patio planting)
  • 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 Tribute

Even if you're new to planting, the Snow Fountains® Weeping Cherry is low-maintenance and resilient, rewarding simple care with a cascade of spring blooms.

  • Light: Full sun, at least 6 hours of direct sunlight daily, for the heaviest bloom and best fall color.

  • Water: Keep soil evenly moist while your tree is establishing, then provide deep soaks during extended dry spells. It doesn't tolerate soil that stays consistently wet.

  • Space: Plan for a mature size of about 8 to 15 feet tall and 6 to 12 feet wide, giving its cascading branches room to sweep toward the ground.

This tree grows slowly, adding just 6 to 12 inches a year, so patience in the early years pays off with a fuller, more established form. Light pruning after blooming helps maintain its shape without sacrificing next year's flowers.

Optional: Plant with Cremation Ashes - The Treebute® Difference

For those wishing to incorporate 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.

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

Plant Specifications:

Bloom Time:
Spring
Botanical Name:
Prunus x 'Snofozam'
Growth Rate Value:
Slow
Mature Height Value:
8-15 ft.
Mature Width Value:
6-8 ft.
Sunlight Value:
Full Sun
Does Not Ship To:
AK, AZ, HI, OR
Growing Zones:
5-8 outdoors

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What if they're not ready to plant right away?

The kit includes simple instructions to care for your tree until planting time. Many customers plant on a significant date, a birthday, an anniversary, or another day that feels right.

Do I need ashes to plant a Snow Fountains Weeping Cherry memorial tree?

No. Treebute Kits work beautifully as living memorials without cremation ashes. The cremation-safe soil is an optional add-on for those who want to incorporate ashes. Your weeping cherry is meaningful either way - the cascading white blossoms honor your loved one regardless.

What's included in the Snow Fountains Weeping Cherry Treebute Kit?

Each kit includes a young, healthy Snow Fountains Weeping Cherry tree; a step-by-step planting & watering care guide; and a personalized memorial message. One thoughtfully packaged kit - everything arrives together, ready to plant.

Can I plant a weeping cherry with cremation ashes?

Yes. Treebute Kits offer the option to add Treebute® organic soil blend specially formulated to safely mix with cremation ashes and offset the naturally high pH and sodium level, creating a nurturing foundation for tree growth. Each spring, as the white blossoms return, they become a living expression of love that endures.

When does the Snow Fountains Weeping Cherry bloom?

Snow Fountains blooms in early to mid-spring (typically March-April, depending on your climate) for approximately three weeks. Pure white flowers emerge from soft pink buds and cover every cascading branch, creating a stunning "fountain of snow" effect before the leaves appear.

How big does a Snow Fountains Weeping Cherry get?

A mature Snow Fountains typically reaches 8-15 feet tall and 6-12 feet wide, making it one of the more compact weeping cherries available. Its manageable size makes it perfect for smaller yards, courtyards, and garden focal points while still delivering dramatic beauty.

Can I plant ashes without any special soil treatment?

We strongly advise against it and doing so will void the Warranty. Planting cremation ashes directly with a tree, without proper treatment, can stress or even kill the plant. The high sodium and pH levels create conditions that are hostile to root development. If you want your memorial tree to thrive for years to come, using the Treebute Organic Soil Blend is essential when incorporating ashes.

What makes Treebute different from other memorial tree options?

Treebute is designed to be planted at home, in your own yard, patio, or indoor space. Unlike distant memorial forests where a tree is planted somewhere you may never visit, a Treebute grows right where you can see it. It becomes a gentle, living presence in your daily life.

Every kit includes a healthy tree of your choice, clear planting and care instructions, and the option to add scientifically formulated soil for safe ash incorporation. And our team understands that every memorial is deeply personal.

How is this different from having a tree planted in a forest?

Forest donation programs plant something far away and send a card. A Treebute Kit delivers a real, living plant to your door, or to your recipient's door, so it can be planted and tended at home and seen every day. It becomes part of daily life, not a distant certificate.