I'd recommend Flowering Dogwood, ... as long as your area is not having issues with Dogwood Anthracnose. Dogwood is also a spectacular Spring bloomer, with a longer blooming period than Crabapple. Dogwood has red foliage color in the Fall, which also lasts for, at least, a month. Crabapple is a good choice as well, but there are some cautions ... 1.) Make sure that the cultivar that you plant does not drop its fruit. Many of the older cultivars dropped acorn-sized fruit (exactly what you said you don't want). Many of the newer cultivars, however, hold on to their (smaller sized) fruit through the winter - until the birds eat them. 2.) You might want to reconsider Crabapple if you have any Juniper plantings. Crabapple planted in the vicinity of some Juniper/Cedar can develop a fungal disease which will affect its foliage in the late summer. 3.) Crabapples are subject to any number of plant disease which can dimish their attractiveness. Be sure to plant a disease resistant cultivar.

That was last year. when I picked flowers- it was first year the apricot was flowering... I never did it for my peach tree and it is doing fine... Though looks like this year no flowers on it as well(... First year out of 7 I have it it doesn't flower...

Not really. I suppose for you, since you like callery pear, this may be a good option. I still do not recommend planting it. Why don't you try to bonsai it (since it's already restricted in that small pot) so that you don't contribute to the invasiveness?

Snuffles, How's your longan doing now? The little plant there looks gorgeous--leaves are healthy and blooms fantastic. If you decide to keep the blooms, I hope you get some fruit forming for you. I would keep the blooms too .. just because blooms aren't always guaranteed year on year. Right now, I have got 3 juvenile longans growing in the ground. One of them actually isn't too juvenile. I got it 9 years ago when it was about 2-3 ft tall. So, it must be about more than 10 years old now. I planted it in the ground at first, but it kept getting sick with white flies. So, I dug it out again and nursed it to health. A couple of years back, I planted it back into the ground and since then it has grown to 8 ft tall with a lot more new leaves, but the white flies came back to attack it. Now that it's bigger, I think it's also more hardy to withstand the white flies attack. I used to clean the sticky stuff off the leaves, but now that it's bigger, it's hard to do that. Anyway, here's a picture of it bearing some fruit now: Longan Kohala at 8 ft now: close up of the little fruit formation: The second longan I have is a Biew Kiew (slightly more than 5 ft tall). I'm guessing the age is less 5-7 years. It was blooming last year, but I got no fruit from it. This year, no sign of any blooms. Longans have a habit of growing long floppy limps. I just chopped off two of the lanky limps in the middle. If you look closely, you'll see the old dark green leaves beneath the new flushes that shot up. Here's a third longan which is also a Biew Kiew. It's a little over 5 ft too. No blooms this year. The problem I noticed a while ago was this tree was in a "frozen" state, meaning the little budding shoots from last year got dried out. I was waiting to see if they would grow, but they never did, so I decided to rub them off the branches. A few weeks later, I saw lots of new flushes coming up. So, I did learn something new. I was having so much troubles with my lychees and decided to pay more attention to my longans to see if they will perform better for me. At least, with the lychees, they are pretty pest free except for web worms ... which unfortunately is prevalent when there are mature hard wood trees around. Oh yeah, we have some humongous Oak trees around here ... lol. I hope you enjoy your little longan tree now and hope it'll do well for you in the years to come.