The charity said the cherry blossoms held deep cultural significance in Japan and would take between three and five years to establish.
It said the first to blossom, the Prunus x yedoensis (Yoshino cherry) is the most commonly planted cherry in Japan and would produce “lightly fragrant, pale pink flowers that fade to pure white blossoms in late March”.
Eden said both the Prunus ‘Tai-haku’ (great white cherry) and the Prunus ‘Beni-yutaka’ were rarer types of cherry blossom, typically only found in speciality collections.
The charity said the great white cherry was rescued from extinction by a single tree found in Sussex and reintroduced to Japan in 1932 while the Prunus ‘Beni-yutaka’ blooms a soft pink in mid-to-late April.
