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Pollination of
Knight's Early Black
cherry trees
Knight's Early Black
(
Prunus avium
) is in
flowering group 3
. Knight's Early Black is
not self-fertile
and needs a pollination partner of a different variety nearby.
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Varieties that will pollinate
Knight's Early Black
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Amber Heart
in stock
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The most popular traditional English white cherry, widely known as Kent Bigarreau.
Flowering group: 4
Not self-fertile
Picking: Mid
Available rootstocks:
F12/1
Athos
in stock
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A natural dwarf sweet cherry tree, unlikely to get much bigger than 2m.
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertile
Picking: Mid
Available rootstocks:
Own-roots
Black Oliver
in stock
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A traditional English black cherry from the West Midlands.
Flowering group: 3
Not self-fertile
Picking: Mid
Available rootstocks:
F12/1
Burcombe
in stock
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A dark red / black cherry from the Tamar valley.
Flowering group: 2
Not self-fertile
Picking: Late
Available rootstocks:
Colt
F12/1
Celeste
in stock
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Celeste is a compact dark red/black cherry, one of the best early-season varieties, with a sweet mild flavour.
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertile
Picking: Early
Available rootstocks:
Gisela 5
Colney
in stock
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Colney is a large modern late-season English dessert cherry, dark red/black, with a good flavour.
Flowering group: 3
Not self-fertile
Picking: Late
Available rootstocks:
Colt
Early Red Maraly
in stock
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Early Red is a modern dark red sweet cherry with a firm flesh.
Flowering group: 2
Not self-fertile
Picking: Early
Available rootstocks:
Gisela 5
Felicita
in stock
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A modern self-fertile dark-red cherry, notable for its very large cherries.
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertile
Picking: Mid
Available rootstocks:
Gisela 5
Hertford
in stock
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A large dark red English cherry with a good flavour.
Flowering group: 3
Not self-fertile
Picking: Late
Available rootstocks:
Gisela 5
Kordia
in stock
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Kordia is a large late-season true black cherry variety with a good balanced cherry flavour.
Flowering group: 4
Not self-fertile
Picking: Late
Available rootstocks:
Gisela 5
Weigi 2
Weigi 1
Colt
Lapins
in stock
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Perhaps the best all-round sweet cherry for the UK. Easy to grow, with heavy crops of good-flavoured cherries.
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertile
Picking: Mid
Available rootstocks:
Gisela 5
Colt
Merchant
in stock
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An early-season black/red cherry with a good flavour.
Flowering group: 2
Good pollinator
Not self-fertile
Picking: Early
Available rootstocks:
Gisela 5
Colt
Merton Glory
in stock
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A well-known mid-season English white cherry.
Flowering group: 2
Good pollinator
Not self-fertile
Picking: Early
Available rootstocks:
Gisela 5
Colt
Nimba
in stock
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Nimba is a modern large-fruited red sweet cherry, ripening right at the start of the cherry season.
Flowering group: 2
Not self-fertile
Picking: Very early
Available rootstocks:
Gisela 5
Pacific Red
in stock
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Pacific Red is a modern large-fruited red sweet cherry with a firm flesh.
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertile
Picking: Early
Available rootstocks:
Gisela 5
Penny
in stock
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Penny is a high quality late-season black cherry - ripening in mid-August.
Flowering group: 3
Not self-fertile
Picking: Very late
Available rootstocks:
Gisela 5
Colt
Skeena
in stock
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One of the best of the Canadian late-season cherries.
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertile
Picking: Late
Available rootstocks:
Gisela 5
Colt
Stardust
in stock
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Stardust is a new mid-season white cherry which is also fully self-fertile.
Flowering group: 4
Good pollinator
Self-fertile
Picking: Early
Available rootstocks:
Gisela 5
Colt
Stella
in stock
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If you only want to grow one cherry tree, choose Stella - self-fertile, easy to grow, and a good pollinator.
Flowering group: 4
Good pollinator
Self-fertile
Picking: Mid
Available rootstocks:
Gisela 5
Weigi 2
Weigi 1
Colt
Summer Sun
in stock
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Summer Sun is productive mid-season cherry, and should ripen even if the summer weather is less than perfect.
Flowering group: 3
Good pollinator
Partially self-fertile
Picking: Mid
Available rootstocks:
Gisela 5
Colt
Sunburst
in stock
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Sunburst is a large red mid-season cherry with a good sweet mild flavour, and notably easy to pick.
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertile
Picking: Mid
Available rootstocks:
Gisela 5
Colt
Sweetheart
in stock
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Sweetheart is one of the best-flavoured late-season cherries for the UK climate.
Flowering group: 3
Good pollinator
Self-fertile
Picking: Late
Available rootstocks:
Gisela 5
Gisela 6
Colt
Sylvia
in stock
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Sylvia produces large dark red sweet cherries, ripening in the middle of the cherry season. It is a naturally small tree and grows with a columnar form, useful if space is limited.
Flowering group: 4
Not self-fertile
Picking: Mid
Available rootstocks:
Colt
Tamara
in stock
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Tamara has probably the largest fruit size of any of the cherry varieties we offer.
Flowering group: 2
Not self-fertile
Picking: Late
Available rootstocks:
Gisela 5
Waterloo
in stock
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Waterloo is a traditional English sweet cherry with a red / black skin.
Flowering group: 2
Not self-fertile
Picking: Mid
Available rootstocks:
F12/1