Plant Database
Peppermint Flowering Peach
Flowering peach ‘Peppermint’
The Red Flowering Peach is a burst of pure spring joy. In early spring, before its leaves appear, its bare branches become completely smothered in vibrant, double pink blooms, creating a cotton-candy-like cloud of color. This fast-growing, small tree offers an unforgettable seasonal spectacle, perfect for adding a dramatic splash of color to sunny Bay Area gardens for many springs to come.
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Creates a breathtaking spring display with its branches densely covered in showy, double, deep pink to rose-red flowers in early to mid-spring.
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Grows rapidly to its mature size, providing quick impact and filling in a garden space faster than many other ornamental trees.
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Maintains a rounded, densely branched form that is attractive even when not in bloom, with simple, glossy green summer foliage that turns yellow in fall.
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As a true peach tree, it requires a location with full, all-day sun and excellent air circulationto thrive and avoid disease.
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Provides essential early-season pollen for bees and other pollinators when few other plants are in bloom.