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White Icicle Flowering Peach

Prunus persica 'White Icicle'

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White Icicle Flowering Peach (Prunus persica 'White Icicle') at A Very Successful Garden Center

White Icicle Flowering Peach flowers

White Icicle Flowering Peach flowers

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Height:  20 feet

Spread:  20 feet

Sunlight:  full sun 

Hardiness Zone:  5b

Other Names:  Common Peach

Description:

A highly ornamental but rather sensitive tree for landscape use, featuring very showy, snow white double flowers that emerge later than many other varieties; a stunning focal point in the spring home garden

Ornamental Features

White Icicle Flowering Peach features showy clusters of fragrant white flowers along the branches in late spring before the leaves. It has dark green deciduous foliage. The narrow leaves turn yellow in fall.

Landscape Attributes

White Icicle Flowering Peach is a deciduous tree with a more or less rounded form. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

This tree will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and is best pruned in late winter once the threat of extreme cold has passed. Gardeners should be aware of the following characteristic(s) that may warrant special consideration;

  • Messy
  • Insects
  • Disease

White Icicle Flowering Peach is recommended for the following landscape applications;

  • Accent
  • Vertical Accent
  • Hedges/Screening

Planting & Growing

White Icicle Flowering Peach will grow to be about 20 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 20 feet. It has a low canopy with a typical clearance of 3 feet from the ground, and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 40 years or more.

This tree should only be grown in full sunlight. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments, and will benefit from being planted in a relatively sheltered location. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.

 
 
Hardiness Zone Plant Height Minimum Sunlight
Characteristics
Accent  Articulation  Screening 
Applications
Flowers  Plant Form 
Ornamental Features