Pollination of New Star cherry trees

Pollination partner cherry varieties in our catalogue

1. Amber Heart

   The most popular traditional English white cherry, widely known as Kent Bigarreau.

   Check pollinators >Flowering group: 4  Self-sterile  Cherry group: 3  Picking season: Mid season

   Stock availability:

   • 1-year bare-root F12/1

2. Black Oliver

   A traditional English black cherry from the West Midlands.

   Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3  Self-sterile  Picking season: Mid-Late season

   Stock availability: sold out

3. Celeste

   Celeste is a compact dark red/black cherry, one of the best early-season varieties, with a sweet mild flavour.

   Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3  Self-fertile  Picking season: Early season

   Stock availability: sold out

4. Kordia

   Kordia is a large late-season true black cherry variety with a good balanced cherry flavour.

   Check pollinators >Flowering group: 4  Self-sterile  Cherry group: 6  Picking season: Mid season

   Stock availability:

   • Spindlebush bare-root Gisela 5

5. Lapins

   Perhaps the best all-round sweet cherry for the UK. Easy to grow, with heavy crops of good-flavoured cherries.

   Check pollinators >Flowering group: 2  Self-fertile  Picking season: Mid season

   Stock availability: sold out

6. Merchant

   An early-season black cherry with a good flavour.

   Check pollinators >Flowering group: 4  Self-sterile  Picking season: Mid season

   Stock availability: sold out

7. Merton Glory

   A well-known mid-season English white cherry.

   Check pollinators >Flowering group: 2  Self-sterile  Picking season: Early season

   Stock availability: sold out

8. Morello

   Morello is a traditional late-season acid or sour-cherry, ideal for cooking with, and can be grown in north-facing situations.

   Check pollinators >Flowering group: 4    Picking season: Late season

   Stock availability:

   • 2-year patio-tree pot-grown own-roots
   • 1-year bare-root Colt
   • 2-year bush-trained bare-root Colt
   • Half-standard bare-root Colt

9. Penny

   Penny is a high quality very late-season black cherry - it ripens in mid-August.

   Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3  Self-sterile  Picking season: Very-Late season

   Stock availability: sold out

10. Regina

    Regina is a new late-season sweet black cherry, with a good flavour and resistance to splitting.

    Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3  Self-sterile  Cherry group: 2  Picking season: Late season

    Stock availability:

    • Spindlebush bare-root Gisela 5

11. Stella

    If you only want to grow one cherry tree, choose Stella - self-fertile, easy to grow, and a good pollinator.

    Check pollinators >Flowering group: 4  Self-fertile  Picking season: Mid-Late season

    Stock availability:

    • 2-year bush-trained pot-grown Colt

12. Summer Sun

    Summer Sun is productive mid-season cherry, and should ripen even if the summer weather is less than perfect.

    Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3  Partially self-fertile  Picking season: Mid-Late season

    Stock availability: sold out

13. Sunburst

    Sunburst is a large red mid-season cherry with a good sweet mild flavour, and notably easy to pick.

    Check pollinators >Flowering group: 4  Self-fertile  Picking season: Mid-Late season

    Stock availability:

    • Half-standard premium pot-grown Colt

14. Sweetheart

    Sweetheart is one of the best-flavoured late-season cherries for the UK climate.

    Check pollinators >Flowering group: 4  Self-fertile  Picking season: Mid-Late season

    Stock availability:

    • Spindlebush bare-root Gisela 6

15. Tamara

    Tamara has probably the largest fruit size of any of the cherry varieties we offer.

    Check pollinators >Flowering group: 2  Self-sterile  Picking season: Late season

    Stock availability:

    • Spindlebush bare-root Gisela 5