Plant pretty trees with pink and white flowers in your yard for a gorgeous display of colorful blooms in springtime.
9 Trees With Pink and White Flowers in Spring
Updated on Apr. 18, 2025
When you plant pretty trees with pink and white flowers in your backyard, the spring air fills with their sweet scent and lovely flowers. It’s like getting the best of both a backyard tree and a flower garden. And not only do they look lovely, but plenty of backyard birds are attracted to flowering trees, too! We’ve rounded up nine of our favorite tree varieties that burst into pink and white flowers in spring.
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Flowering Crabapple
Malus, Zones 4 to 8
Size: 6 to 8 feet tall and white to 20 to 25 feet tall and wide
Crabapples are the darlings of cool-climate yards. Flowers of white, pink or deep crimson transform into dainty fruits in yellow, orange, maroon or red. Select a newer variety to ensure good disease- and pest resistance, and plant in full sun.
Why we love it: The diversity! Tree shapes can be rounded, spreading, upright, vase shaped and even weeping.
Magnolia
Magnolia, zones 4 to 9
Size: 15 to 40 feet tall and wide
Gorgeous blooms in white, pink, yellow and purple balance like teacups or starbursts atop branches that later bear green leaves, some as glossy as lacquer. Plant in full sun to part shade.
Why we love it: There’s one for almost every region, from star magnolia (Magnolia stellata) in the chilly north to southern and champaca magnolias in the balmy south, and saucer magnolias everywhere in between.
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Apple Serviceberry
Amelanchier x grandiflora, zones 4 to 9
Size: 20 to 25 feet tall and wide
Apple serviceberry is just one kind of serviceberry that’s perfect for most landscapes, thanks to its moderate size, bird-attracting berries and ability to thrive in sun to part sun locations.
Why we love it: It’s a special tree with four seasons of beauty: spring blooms that become red-purple edible fruits, green leaves that flush with orange to red fall color, and smooth silver bark that’s gorgeous in winter.
Eastern Redbud
Cercis canadensis, zones 4 to 9
Size: 20 to 30 feet tall, 25 to 35 feet wide
Dainty blooms dramatically hang from the branches of this North American native well before the heart-shaped leaves appear. Plant this tree with pink flowers in full sun to part-shade. Plant your eastern redbud tree in a spot where it has space to spread out, because this spring showstopper is wider than it is tall.
Why we love it: The small size fits most yards. You can select alternate leaf colors, such as burgundy Forest Pansy or lime-gold Rising Sun.
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Japanese Flowering Cherry
Prunus serrulata, zones 5 to 8
Size: 40 to 50 feet tall, 25 to 40 feet wide
You might ooh and aah every spring at the photos of the cherry tree display in Washington, D.C., but you can plant a flowering show of your own. Choose a spot in full sun.
Why we love it: With the right cultivar, a gorgeous cherry tree with pink flowers also produces fruits that birds crave, especially robins, cardinals, and waxwings.
Dogwood
Cornus kousa, zones 5 to 8
Size: 20 to 40 feet tall and wide
Flowers up to 4 inches wide grace the spring branches of North American and Asian dogwoods. Test your soil pH before planting because dogwood grows best planted in acidic soil in full sun to full shade.
Why we love it: In addition to the graceful spring flowers and fall leaf colors, the colorful red fruits produced by dogwood are gobbled up by backyard birds.
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White Fringe Tree
Chionanthus virginicus, zones 4 to 9
Size: 12 to 20 feet tall and wide
Native from southern Pennsylvania, south to Florida and west to Texas, fringe tree bursts onto the spring scene with lightly fragrant strappy white petals. They’re held in small groups attached at the top like tassels.
Why we love it: It’s the best-kept secret among trees with white flowers in spring, yet it’s one of the most adaptable, thriving in full sun to part shade. Female trees produce blue fruits that birds love.
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Carolina Silverbell
Halesia tetraptera (or Halesia carolina), zones 4 to 8
Size: 30 to 40 feet tall, 20 to 35 feet wide
Almost maintenance-free and able to grow in full sun to full shade, keep Carolina silverbell moist and in welldraining, acidic soil. Test your soil for a pH below 7.
Why we love it: Children and adults alike might believe that fairies come by to ring its elegant white or rose bell-shaped blossoms.
Japanese Tree Lilac
Syringa reticulata ssp. reticulata, Zones 3 to 7
Size: 20 to 30 feet tall, 15 to 25 feet wide
Flowering a bit later than other lilacs, this underused tree releases a sweet scent from its cone-shaped panicles of ivory blooms. Sorry southerners, but this is a cold-climate choice. Plant in full sun.
Why we love it: It’s unusual and grows even in the most difficult places such as highway medians.
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Japanese stewartia
Stewartia pseudocamellia, Zones 5 to 8
“Camellia” in its botanical name says something about the flowers. Check out our beginner’s guide to growing a camellia bush.
Sourwood
Oxydendrum arboreum, Zones 5 to 9
Tiny, fragrant, white bell-shaped flowers hang in cone-shaped clusters.
Korean evodia
Tetradium daniellii, Zones 4 to 8
It’s also called the bee tree, thanks to small white blossoms on female plants.
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