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Cherry, Amber Heart Prunus avium Amber Heart From £32.99

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Edible cherries have some of the loveliest flowers of any fruit tree, almost as pretty as ornamental cherry blossom trees.

Buying Cherry Trees

Barerooted cherry trees are delivered between November and the end of March, the winter planting season.
Selected varieties are available pot grown year round, both as normal trees or as dwarf patio trees.

We grow sweet cherries that ripen early or late, and come in a range of colour from black through red to yellow and near-white, as well as the world-famous Morello sour cherry.

Read more advice about choosing and growing cherry trees.

All our mail order cherry trees come with Free Returns, and our Replacement Guarantee for bareroot stock, so you can give them a whirl with complete confidence.
Best advice & friendly support throughout.

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FAQs

Cherry trees produce vivid displays of cloudy white blossom in early spring, followed by a flush of late summer fruit.

Which Cherry Variety Should I Choose?

The most popular varieties for UK growers are Stella, which is the best for drier Eastern parts of the country, and Summer Sun or Sunburst, which are best in more humid Western areas.

The best varieties for the North & Scotland are Lapins Cherokee, Stella, and Colney, because they flower late and so (hopefully) avoid the frosts.

For a spread of cherries that covers the whole cropping season, we recommend:

June: Early Rivers
Early July: Amber Heart
Late July: Stella or Summer Sun
August: Sweetheart

When it comes to sour cooking cherries, there "is only one": Morello (actually there are several, but it really is the best).
Morello is the only cherry that will crop reasonably well in the shade.

Lapins Cherokee is a sweet cherry, not sour, but is also excellent for cooking.

Do all cherry trees have edible fruit?

No, only the sweet and sour cherry varieties listed in this section have fruit that humans would want to eat.

Most cherry blossom trees, grown ornamentally for their flowers, do not make fruit at all.
The wild cherry and bird cherry do make fruit, but they aren't tasty.

Where Can I Grow Cherry Trees?

The best place to plant cherry trees is in a sunny spot with well drained, fertile soil that has neutral to mildly acidic pH. They are happy on clay on a hill or slope that does not waterlog in winter.

Shelter from strong winds is also good.

Sweet cherry trees need plenty of sun to ripen, and grow best in the warmer Southern and Western parts of the UK.
In the North and Scotland, a sheltered, South facing wall with full sun is best for consistent results, where you can train your cherries as fans, supported by wires.
Morello sour cherries are unusually shade-tolerant, and will crop well on a North facing wall as long as there is open sky above and in front of them (so an alleyway is probably too shady). You can also grow damsons and bullaces in quite shady sites.

If your soil is poor, dry, or alkaline, you can improve it by digging in well rotted organic matter (such as our Soil Improver), and then mulching well every year.

Remember that because mulch is not dug into the soil, it does not need to be rotted.

When and How do I Plant my Cherry Tree?

When is the best time to plant Cherry trees?

The best time to plant cherry trees is in winter, using bareroot stock.

Pot grown trees can be planted at any time during the rest of the year, as long as you are absolutely certain to water them well.

There are pros and cons to every season, but as long as you water well in dry weather until your tree is established, you can plant at any time.

How to Plant a Cherry Tree

You have two main choices with cherries. Either grow them:

As a normal freestanding tree in the "bush" form (with a short trunk under 1.2 metres) or half-standard form (with a trunk between 1.2 and 1.5 metres tall)
As a fan, trained flat using support wires (usually against a wall).

Watch our Fruit Tree Planting video, (we highly recommend using Rootgrow).

Cherry trees must be planted at the same depth in the ground as they were in the pot or ground before being transplanted.

Growing fruit trees requires nutritious soil, with good levels of moisture retention, so improve sandy or poor soils with well rotted organic matter (such as our Soil Improver) before planting.
Clay soil does not need improving.

When and How do I Prune my Cherry Tree?

Cherry trees, like all stone fruit in the Prunus family, should only be pruned when their sap is flowing upwards, from Spring to late Summer.
This reduces the (admittedly quite low) risk of Silver Leaf Disease, because the rising sap physically pushes the spores out of the pruning cut.

However, as always, remove DDD wood at any time: Dead, Diseased, or Damaged wood.

How to Prune Cherry Trees

Pruning maidens into bushes or half-standards.
Pruning bushes or half standards (this is year two if you start with a maiden, or year one if you buy ready-made bushes / half standards).

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