The Cherry Tree Trail

All along the walking path within the RACC campus, across the festival grounds beside Canal Street through Heritage Park, and
west along the Wyomissing Creek Trail to
the Reading Public Museum, you'll see the beautiful flowers in the spring and the gorgeous back-drop of the leaves and branches throughout the rest of the year.

The trees will be flowering this spring, right after planting.  We are hoping this gorgeous addition to the riverfront will be a new spring focal point for generations to come as a project like this only becomes more beautiful with age.

Don't miss out on your opportunity to
sponsor one of these lovely trees along the river. All sponsors will be recognized

on common memorial dedication plaques.

The sponsorship amount per tree is $395
for the spring planting.

Over 100  trees have been sponsored and planted so far toward a goal of more than 500 trees.

To sponsor a tree, click here for the form,
or contact us today!

Oriental Cherry Prunus Serrulata

Entertainment Square

Tom McMahon

Reading Area Community College

Gov. Mifflin Middle School

Berks Community Hiking Club

Powell, Freed, Curran, and Lins Family

Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Gehris

Caroline Kearney

Peter Edelman

Shuki & Machiko Kawata

Judy & Mike Ehlerman

Ronald & Beverly Bashore

Cynthia & Loius Thun

David Thun

Barbara Thun

Pagoda Printing Employees

Wife Carole and Children

Mary Ann Chelius Smith

James Hughes

James Yocum

Katie Hannon

White Star Travel Center

West Reading - Wyomissing Rotary Club

West Side Senior Citizens

Reading Philharmonic Orchestra

Yuasa Battery, Inc.

John Weidenhammer

Elain M. Bertolet Kachel

Berks Economic Partnership

Charles M. & Ellen L. Gallagher

Frederick Mogel

Peter & Amelia Morris

T. A. Willson

Richard & Sandy Spayd

Richard & Angela Ehst

Barbara Spangenberg

Chris Kraras

Red Bud Tree Cercis Canadensis

Riverfront Park

Comcast

Spayd’s Landscaping

Buddies Nursery

Patricia Perfect

Schuylkill River Flotilla Paddlers

Lauer's Park Elementary School

VF Outlet Inc.

Javier Ortega Insurance Agency

Carole Wolfe

C. Thomas & Dianne Work

Leon Churchill

Rochelle Grey

Stephen Fritz

Ted & Christine Kolva

Thomas M. Moll

Anne Overly Moll

Bertolet Landing

Suburban Water Testing Labs

Canal Street

David Hafer

Heritage Park

UGI Utilities

WEEU Radio

Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Solis Ghen Esq.

The Buddies Nursery

Berks County Bar Association

Conners Investor Service

B & G Glass

Friends of the Greenhouse

Greater Reading Young Professionals

Homewood Suites by Hilton: Reading

In Memory of James K. Boyer

Pagoda Printing Service

In memory of Donald L. Peifer

Reading Public Museum

Doris and John Mazzacca

Reading Berks Guild of Craftsmen

Rich Stump, President of Suburban Water Testing Labs and Sara Kuzma,
VP of Client Services, next to the donated Cherry Tree at Bertolet Dock

Tree Offerings:

Common Name/ Botanical Name

Sargent Cherry/ Prunus sargentii

Known for it's rich, polished reddish bark, the Sargent Cherry lives longer and can survive colder weather than any other flowering cherry.  It is also well-loved for its rich red fall color.

Okame Cherry/ Prunus x incam 'Okame'

One of the earliest blooming cherries and most consistent year-to-year, the Okame Cherry has beautiful rose-colored calyx and stalks, pink single flowers and fine fall foliage.

Weeping Cherry (Shidarezakura)/ Prunus sunhirtella 'Pendula Plena Rosa'

Names for its dramatic boughs which drape to the ground, the Weeping Cherry is a beautiful and graceful tree, especially when swaying in a light breeze.  There are many variations which produce dense double-flowers with 50 or more petals.

Autumn Flowering Cherry/ Prunus subhirtella 'Autumnalis Rosea'

An unusual tree which, as the name suggests, begins to bloom in the autumn.  Dark pink blossoms cover the tree in the autumn and open into semi-double (10 petal) pink flowers nearly an inch in diameter in January to February