Cherry

(Prunus avium)

Description

These Sweet Cherries are an absolute delight in the summer. Their branches hang heavy with an abundance of sweet red fruit that’s sure to make you smile. These cherries are highly versatile: bake them into pies or turnovers, make a cherry syrup and drizzle it over brownies and ice cream, candy them, can them, dehydrate them and use them in a trail mix with hazelnuts and almonds, or just pop them into your mouth fresh and enjoy their sweet, juicy goodness.

Cherry trees, depending on the variety, can get quite large if left to their own devices. Fortunately, they take well to pruning and can be maintained to whatever size and shape you like.

Our Cherry trees come as first-year bare-root seedlings from healthy, highly productive parents. Approximately 6-12 inches tall. These are not grafted trees, so each one will be slightly unique and better adapted to our ever-changing climate, but overall will be mostly true-to-seed. Embark on this journey of discovering new varieties with seedling fruit, or graft it over to some old clone, but note that these are not dwarfing rootstocks, so the resulting tree is likely to still require thoughtful pruning.

Site Preference

Cherries like full sun and will benefit from companion planting with a nitrogen fixer and winecap-inoculated mulch.

Hardiness

Zone 5-9