Tree ID please!

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Can anyone ID this tree I saw on a walk? I’m looking for a tree with blossom for my garden and I love the dark pink colour of this one.

Cherry blossom of some sort- there are hundreds of varieties

It could be a crab apple but without a better picture of the flowers it is hard to tell.

Whereabouts are you, OP? It seems a bit early for cherry blossom to me. Try to get a close-up photo of a leaf, a flower and the trunk. That will help to narrow it down.

Yup! An early flowering Ornamental Cherry, but, as said, many, many varieties from which to choose.

@Geneticsbunny

It could be a crab apple but without a better picture of the flowers it is hard to tell.

It's way too early for crab apple though.

I think some sort of prunus e.g. pissardii

Do you particularly want an early flowering blossom tree? I've just been checking my photos for when my deep pink crab apple flowered - second half of April. It's a good colour, and has red crab apples in autumn whereas a lot of ornamental cherries seem to be sterile with no fruit. So it might be worth you considering if you don't mind it being a bit later. I think the variety I have is 'Rudolph'.

The horizontal lines on the trunk say cherry.

@WaltzingToWalsingham Essex/London border - I know it’s early but a lot of trees round here are flowering a couple of weeks earlier than they did last year, we’ve had a pretty mild winter I guess?
@ErrolTheDragon your tree is beautiful, definitely one to think about if it’s got fruits too, I’m aiming to make my garden more bird friendly after we had to have some trees removed.

I’m aiming to make my garden more bird friendly after we had to have some trees removed.
There's some recommendations for trees from the RSPB here. There's other advice on making gardens more wildlife-friendly too, it's worth having a poke around their site on a wet weekend!

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/advice/gardening-for-wildlife/plants-for-wildlife/garden-trees/best-trees/

Yes, definitely a variety of flowering cherry - the bark is a dead giveaway - and the flowering time also.