yes, bright red berries which ARE delicious. good luck getting them before the birds
tho. no, they really arent messy.
there is no reason why you cant cut the lower branches and leave a clean trunk 3-4
feet off the ground.
the scenario of watching the sunset brings to mind Japanese custom and the kousa is
definitely that kind of airy feeling .. much like the small maples, but a kousa never
has a dense canopy, it is always open and the branches can be weighted to gracefully
arch downward. Ingrid

" wrote:
Dr- thanks for the pics of the kousa in the front yard. I love the
flowers it puts out...does it bear fruit though? I've heard alot of
flowering trees bear fruit of various sizes...the smaller, less
conspicuous and less messy the better for me. Of course that may not be
possible in the smaller trees I'm interested in.

The kousa you mentioned has great flowers and appears to about the
right size, but I wanted to know do the lower branches get far off the
ground? The reason I ask is I'd like to maximize my backyard view of
the sunset under the canopy of the trees if possible so a tree that
branches near the ground would let me do that.

I'm sure I'm being too picky, but if there is a flowering tree out
there that's not too tall and branches 3-4 off the ground then maybe
some more educated folks might be able to point me in the right
direction.

Thanks again for all your help
Tim



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