No experience with the Akebono, but if it sets fruit, don’t plant it anywhere along the path to your door. We have an ornamental pin cherry that drops thousands of small black fruit on the driveway, walk, and porch.
Then people track in the cherries and stain the carpet, no matter how much I remind them, or sweep the walk, porch and drive.
Luckily non-fruiting. One fruiting tree i have a love-hate relationship with is the Sweetgum. In the fall it has great orange leaves. But come January thru March it is a nightmare with the sweetgum balls - those spikey golfball sized demons from hades. People will slip and fall on them, they also are a nightmare for mowers or leaf vacuums, and they love to make their way into the little joints between the concrete driveway.
Our dogwoods are starting to bloom. A few of the Camellias are still flowering out - though they lost most of their bloomheads to the freezes. Burning bush and Serviceberry are doing great - along with the Snowball Viburnum and Shasta Vibrunums - they are the big winners this spring. Don’t seem to have suffered any freeze or water damage at all.
“...if it sets fruit, don’t plant it anywhere along the path to your door.”
Excellent advice. My neighbors have a beautiful tree that grows what looks like strawberries. It’s gorgeous, and shades their entry area. And they sweep, and hose, and pressure wash, and struggle with the berries. That tree is a beautiful curse.
And the birds won’t eat the berries either. :)