Misc	Wildlife Value
Shade	Full Sun, Partial Shade
Area	Exposed Windy Areas
Soil	Well Drained, Alkaline/Chalky, Poor/Dry
Type	Native, Screening
Also Good	Autumn Colour

Prunus padus (Standard)

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SIZES	1-2	3-9	10+
8/10cm Girth Standard. Bareroot	Available to order - delivery from November£99.96	Available to order - delivery from November£94.98	Available to order - delivery from November£89.94
6/8cm Girth Standard. Bareroot	Available to order - delivery from November£79.98	Available to order - delivery from November£74.94	Available to order - delivery from November£69.96
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£33.66

£79.98

Cherry, Bird - Standard needs...

Tree Guard, Heavy Duty
The best guard for an established tree or a bare root standard

From £4.02
Stakes, Tree Planting
Tree Stake - 120 to 150cm x 5cm Rounded & treated. Necessary for all standard ornamental trees.

From £5.76
Rootgrow
For healthy plants & trees, if you only add one thing to the soil at planting time, use Rootgrow

From £6.00
Tree Planting Pack
All the accessories you need to plant a large tree: Any Ornamental Standard Bush & Half-Stan

From £10.19

Frequently bought together...

Buckle and Strap Ties

From £2.94
Buckle and Strap Tree Ties Rubber strap with buckle & buffer. Buffer prevents tree from rubbing
Stakes, Tree Planting

From £5.76
Tree Stake - 120 to 150cm x 5cm Rounded & treated. Necessary for all standard ornamental trees.
Rootgrow

From £6.00
For healthy plants & trees, if you only add one thing to the soil at planting time, use Rootgrow

Wild Bird Cherry Standard Trees

Bird cherry trees, Prunus padus, are fast growing, native, deciduous trees. In early summer, they have strands of small, almond scented, white flowers. These ripen into dark fruit which are popular with birds. As with most cherries, the foliage colours beautifully in autumn. They are suitable for medium-sized gardens and places with poor soil (except shallow chalk), although they need full sun to flower really well. Bird Cherry trees can reach a height of about 10 metres. You can also buy several varieties of cultivated, ornamental flowering cherry tree here, including the Purple leaf Bird Cherry 'Colorata'.

History & uses of Prunus padus:

Known as hackberries, the fruit are edible, but they taste bitter and you wouldn't want to eat them unless you cooked them up with plenty of sugar. The stone in the centre of the fruit is poisonous and should be removed before cooking. The young spring leaves can be steamed or boiled and then eaten.

How Standard Trees are Measured: All our standards are graded by their girth in centimetres - taken 1 metre above ground level. So, a 6/8 standard has a trunk with a circumference of 6-8 centimetres and an 8/10 standard has a trunk 8-10 centimetres. In any variety an 8/10 is taller than a 6/8 but the heights between different varieties can vary hugely. So standard trees are roughly 2.5 - 4.5 metres tall.

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Delivery: Our standard delivery charges are:

Small box (Orders containing only seedlings or rooted cuttings) £7.20 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £60 inc VAT)
Standard box (Bareroots up to 1.2m) £11.40 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £60 inc VAT)
Large box (Pots up to and incl. 7.5L) £15.00 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £100 inc VAT)
Trees & Hedging (Bareroots & trees 1.2m+) £18.00 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £120 inc VAT)
Pallets (Root balls, large pots, trees etc) £60.00 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £240 inc VAT)

*Surcharges to the Highlands and Islands still apply.

Because couriers sometimes experience delays, we schedule delivery by week, not by day. Therefore, please plan your planting day for the weekend at the end of the delivery week or for the week following delivery, at the earliest.
We will email you the day before your plants are due to arrive.

Payment: We do not charge your card until we begin to prepare your order for packing.

Guarantee: If any plants die within a year, we will replace them. We only ask that you follow our planting & growing instructions and sent us clear photographs of the dead plants in situ, so we can help to make sure that the replacement plants succeed. You only pay for the delivery of the replacements.

Please note that our guarantee is void if there is a hosepipe ban in your area: your newly planted hedging must be watered in dry weather while it is establishing. The best way to water is very thoroughly every few days: at least once a week in summer if there is no heavy rain.

Our nursery has been supplying container grown and bareroot hedging plants to gardeners, farmers and town planners since 1949. Our website started in 2003, so we do understand the concerns that you may have about buying hedging plants online. If any of your plants are damaged when they arrive or if you are otherwise not satisfied with your order after you inspect it, please repackage it and contact us. We will give you a refund or send replacements and send a courier to come and collect the unwanted plants.

Bird Cherry, Large Trees

Prunus padus (Standard)

MAIDEN BAREROOT

BUSH BAREROOT

Tree Guard, Heavy Duty

From £4.02

Stakes, Tree Planting

From £5.76

Rootgrow

From £6.00

Tree Planting Pack

From £10.19

Wild Bird Cherry Standard Trees

History & uses of Prunus padus:

Bareroot planting is best done between October and April
Bareroot and potted - what's the difference?

Foraged Blackberry & Apple Crumble

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Bird Cherry, Large Trees

Prunus padus (Standard)

MAIDEN BAREROOT

BUSH BAREROOT

Tree Guard, Heavy Duty

From £4.02

Stakes, Tree Planting

From £5.76

Rootgrow

From £6.00

Tree Planting Pack

From £10.19

Wild Bird Cherry Standard Trees

History & uses of Prunus padus:

Bareroot planting is best done between October and April Bareroot and potted - what's the difference?

Foraged Blackberry & Apple Crumble

LATEST VIDEO

Sign up!

Bareroot planting is best done between October and April
Bareroot and potted - what's the difference?