Sweet Cherry
Prunus spp.
One of our most useful and popular fruits, Sweet Cherries are great fresh, dried, or frozen. The trees are also attractive with their profuse blooms in the spring and green summer foliage.
Cherries like full to 1/2 day sun, well drained soil and are hardy to -20°F (USDA zone 5). Bloom time is around April and ripening time is July with a yield of 50+ pounds per tree. Most sweet cherry trees are not self-fertile. Bacterial Canker can occasionally damage trunks or branches. Symptoms of this disease are dead branches and amber-colored sap exuding from the branches or trunk. Spraying with copper in the fall and early spring can help control Bacterial Canker. To repel birds, you can cover your trees with netting or use flash tape.
4 Way Combo, Cherry
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Get 4 cherry trees in one with our 4 Way Combo Cherry trees. Each tree will have a random combination of four of the following five varieties grafted onto it: Bing, Rainier, Van, Royal Ann, Stella, Sweetheart.
These trees will have nearly 3/4" thick trunks (11/16" caliper).
Angela, Cherry (Semi-Dwarf)
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Angela produces a large black cherry that resists cracking and ripens like Bing cherry. They are firm with good flavor and ripen mid-season. Angela is a disease resistant variety.
Bing, Cherry (Semi-Dwarf)
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Brought to you by popular request, Bing is considered a top quality old stand-by. The fruit are large, juicy and sweet with a very dark color. Mid-season ripening.
Pollinator required - must plant near a compatible variety of Cherry for fruit production.
Lapin, Cherry (Semi-Dwarf)
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Very large, dark purple, delicious and self-fertile, Lapins is one of the best Cherries available. Lapins is a favorite with commercial growers and is also an easy to grow and very productive variety for the home gardener.
Self-fertile (does not need to be planted near a different variety of cherry in order to produce fruit).
Rainier, Cherry (Semi-Dwarf)
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First developed in 1952 at WSU, this popular variety produces abundant crops of large, deliciously sweet fruits. The unique gold and red color is not only pretty, it actually makes the birds less attracted to the fruit. They will still eat these cherries, but they don't see them as easily which will help preserve more of the crop for you! The flesh of these cherries is white which makes them much less messy because they don't stain like the red cherries do. Rainier fruits make an excellent fresh or baked fruit dessert and they lend themselves well to both freezing and canning. Ripens before Bing, usually in June.
Pollinator required - must plant near a compatible variety of Cherry for fruit production.
Royal Ann, Cherry (Dwarf)
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A naturally dwarfing tree, Royal Ann produces abundant crops of very large, pink and yellow fruit with a delightful flavor. They are very similar to Rainier cherries in both looks and taste but some say they are a little sweeter, more aromatic and softer than their Rainier counter parts, making them the preferred choice by some cherry lovers. They ripen mid-season and of course they are great for fresh eating, but they can also be used in your cooking, or even canned or dried.
If you have a small yard you will appreciate Royal Ann's tendency to stay small - rarely over 10 feet at maturity. These trees are also extra hardy (to USDA zone 4) and sport very colorful blossoms that are typically only seen on ornamental cherry trees!
Pollinator required - must plant near a compatible variety of Cherry for fruit production.
Vandalay™, Cherry
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First developed in Ontario, Canada, Vandalay is a heavy producer of delicious, reddish-black fruit that ripen around the same time as Bing. These cherries are large and firm and very crack resistant which will help reduce spoilage if you get a lot of rain at ripening time. Vandalay is also resistant to bacerial canker and is self-fertile.
Self-fertile (does not need to be planted near a different variety of cherry in order to produce fruit).