Cherry trees

Cherries are perhaps the most diverse member of the genus Prunus, which includes other popular stone fruits such as plums, peaches, and apricots. There are two main types, the sweet cherry Prunus avium (best for eating fresh) and the acid or sour cherry Prunus cerasus (best for culinary use).

Amber Heart
The most popular traditional English white cherry, widely known as Kent Bigarreau.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Aprikyra®
A sweet self-fertile apricot-cherry cross, also known as an Aprichery or Cherrycot
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Athos®
A natural dwarf sweet cherry tree, unlikely to get much bigger than 2m.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Black Oliver
A traditional English black cherry from the West Midlands.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Burcombe
A dark red / black cherry from the Tamar valley.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Celeste
Celeste is a compact dark red/black cherry, one of the best early-season varieties, with a sweet mild flavour.
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Colney
Colney is a large modern late-season English dessert cherry, dark red/black, with a good flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Early Red Maraly®
Early Red is a modern dark red sweet cherry with a firm flesh.
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Felicita®
A modern self-fertile dark-red cherry, notable for its very large cherries.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Hertford
A large dark red English cherry with a good flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Knight's Early Black
A traditional English early-season black cherry
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Kordia
Kordia is a large late-season true black cherry variety with a good balanced cherry flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Lapins
Perhaps the best all-round sweet cherry for the UK. Easy to grow, with heavy crops of good-flavoured cherries.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Merchant
An early-season black/red cherry with a good flavour.
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Merton Glory
A well-known mid-season English white cherry.
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Morello
Morello is a traditional late-season acid or sour-cherry, ideal for cooking with, and can be grown in north-facing situations.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Napoleon Bigarreau
A traditional white cherry, with an excellent flavour and appearance.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Nimba®
Nimba is a modern large-fruited red sweet cherry, ripening right at the start of the cherry season.
- Picking season: Very early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Pacific Red®
Pacific Red is a modern large-fruited red sweet cherry with a firm flesh.
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Penny
Penny is a high quality late-season black cherry - ripening in mid-August.
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Regina
Regina is a new late-season sweet black cherry, with a good flavour and resistance to splitting.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Skeena®
One of the best of the Canadian late-season cherries.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
StardustTM
Stardust is a new mid-season white cherry which is also fully self-fertile.
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Stella
If you only want to grow one cherry tree, choose Stella - self-fertile, easy to grow, and a good pollinator of other cherry trees.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Summer Sun
Summer Sun is productive mid-season cherry, and should ripen even if the summer weather is less than perfect.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Sunburst
Sunburst is a large red mid-season cherry with a good sweet mild flavour, and notably easy to pick.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Sweetheart
Sweetheart is one of the best-flavoured late-season cherries for the UK climate.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Sylvia
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.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Tamara®
Tamara has probably the largest fruit size of any of the cherry varieties we offer.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Waterloo
Waterloo is a traditional English sweet cherry with a red / black skin.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

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