Wild Cherry Sapling Trees

Wild Cherry Plants

Delivered by Mail Order Direct from our Nursery with a Year Guarantee

The Wild Cherry tree, Prunus avium, is a large, vigorous native tree with white flowers. It will grow on any soil with decent drainage.
Wild Cherry is not ideal for a clipped hedge, but it can be planted as a screening tree and pruned so that it branches low down.
It can grow up to about 25 metres high.

The plants on this page are young saplings. You can also buy larger wild cherry trees.
Browse all of our other varieties of wild and ornamental cherry blossom trees, edible cherry trees or all our fruit trees.

Wild Cherry saplings are only delivered bareroot, during winter (Nov-March).

Choosing a size:
When you are ordering a large quantity of Wild Cherry for a big planting project, we suggest that you buy the smaller, 60/80cm tall plants. They are cheaper than large plants, easier to handle and more likely to cope well with poor conditions.
Use the larger 150/175 tall plants if you want a full grown tree quickly.
All of our young trees and shrubs are measured by their height in centimetres above the ground (the roots aren't measured).

General description:

Wild cherry trees are vigorous and wide spreading. Mature trees have a suckering tendency and, over time, a single tree can create a cloned thicket of itself over a large area. It looks lovely in spring, with simple, scented white flowers frothing out from the brown and green new leaves. The cherries are edible and a bit sweet, but the flavour isn't great unless you cook them with some sugar; best to leave them for the birds, who prefer these wild fruit to your precious cultivated ones.
It is not really suitable for a clipped hedge, Cherry Plum is much better suited for this.