Sweet cherries
Sweet cherries are primarily used for eating fresh, straight from the tree.
Cherry trees
The most popular traditional English white cherry, widely known as Kent Bigarreau.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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A natural dwarf sweet cherry tree, unlikely to get much bigger than 2m.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
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A traditional English black cherry from the West Midlands.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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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
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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
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A large dark red English cherry with a good flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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A traditional English early-season black cherry
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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Kordia is a large late-season true black cherry variety with a good balanced cherry flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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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
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A well-known mid-season English white cherry.
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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A traditional white cherry, with an excellent flavour and appearance.
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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Penny is a high quality late-season black cherry - ripening in mid-August.
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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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
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One of the best of the Canadian late-season cherries.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
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Stardust is a new mid-season white cherry which is also fully self-fertile.
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
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If you only want to grow one cherry tree, choose Stella - self-fertile, easy to grow, and a good pollinator.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
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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
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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
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Sweetheart is one of the best-flavoured late-season cherries for the UK climate.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
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