Otto,
Not sure if someone manages to grow it in cultivation.
Maybe some one from the forum can answer this question.
At first, many thanks for those grand sights from Mt. Hermon! Then I agree with you also about the human misery in Syria.
Then
Cerasus prostrata is in cultivation in a fine form distributet by Dr. Hans Simon here in Germany for quite some time. I guess the valid name is
Prunus prostrata.
Of course in the garden it doesn`t make such a perfect show than it does in your pics.
Gerd
