Overall Growth

• The weeping cherry tree, also known as the Weeping Higan Cherry, Prunus subhirtella 'Pendula,' achieves a lifetime growth rate of 20 to 30 feet in height with a canopy spread of 15 to 25 feet. The growth culminates in the graceful, weeping branches that provide the genesis of the tree's name.
  
  

Growth Rate

• The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences indicates that the weeping cherry is a fairly rapid grower that thrives when planted in sunny locations with shelter from excessive wind. It tolerates all soils, but must be well irrigated in sandy soils to achieve its ideal rate of growth.
  
  

Considerations

• The growth rate of the weeping cherry tree is hampered by extreme heat and cold, and locations with those attributes. It is ideally suited to USDA hardiness zones 5A through 8B, areas that exclude the Upper Midwest and extreme southern tips of the United States. The Clemson University Cooperative Extension Service reports that pests and diseases that may hinder the growth of the tree include borers, scale, aphids, leaf spot and twig cankers.