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Pollination of Sunburst cherry trees

Sunburst (Prunus avium)  is in flowering group 4. Sunburst is self-fertile and does not need a pollination partner, but fruiting may be improved if there is a compatible partner of a different variety nearby.Choose another variety

Varieties that will pollinate Sunburst in our catalogue

• Amber Heart

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  The most popular traditional English white cherry, widely known as Kent Bigarreau.

  • Flowering group: 4
  • Not self-fertile
  • Picking: Mid

• Athos

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  A natural dwarf sweet cherry tree, unlikely to get much bigger than 2m.

  • Flowering group: 3
  • Self-fertile
  • Picking: Mid

• Black Oliver

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  A traditional English black cherry from the West Midlands.

  • Flowering group: 3
  • Not self-fertile
  • Picking: Mid

• Colney

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  Colney is a large modern late-season English dessert cherry, dark red/black, with a good flavour.

  • Flowering group: 3
  • Not self-fertile
  • Picking: Late

• Felicitain stock

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  A modern self-fertile dark-red cherry, notable for its very large cherries.

  • Flowering group: 3
  • Self-fertile
  • Picking: Mid

  • Available rootstocks:
  • Gisela 5

• Hertford

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  A large dark red English cherry with a good flavour.

  • Flowering group: 3
  • Not self-fertile
  • Picking: Late

• Knight's Early Black

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  A traditional English early-season black cherry

  • Flowering group: 3
  • Not self-fertile
  • Picking: Early

• Kordiain stock

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  Kordia is a large late-season true black cherry variety with a good balanced cherry flavour.

  • Flowering group: 4
  • Not self-fertile
  • Picking: Late

  • Available rootstocks:
  • Gisela 5
  • Colt

• Napoleon Bigarreau

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  A traditional white cherry, with an excellent flavour and appearance.

  • Flowering group: 5
  • Not self-fertile
  • Picking: Early

• Pennyin stock

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  Penny is a high quality late-season black cherry - ripening in mid-August.

  • Flowering group: 3
  • Not self-fertile
  • Picking: Very late

  • Available rootstocks:
  • Gisela 5
  • Colt

• Reginain stock

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  Regina is a new late-season sweet black cherry, with a good flavour and resistance to splitting.

  • Flowering group: 5
  • Not self-fertile
  • Picking: Late

  • Available rootstocks:
  • Gisela 5

• Skeenain stock

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  One of the best of the Canadian late-season cherries.

  • Flowering group: 3
  • Self-fertile
  • Picking: Late

  • Available rootstocks:
  • Colt

• Stardustin stock

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  Stardust is a new mid-season white cherry which is also fully self-fertile.

  • Flowering group: 4
  • Good pollinator
  • Self-fertile
  • Picking: Early

  • Available rootstocks:
  • Gisela 5
  • Colt

• Summer Sunin stock

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  Summer Sun is productive mid-season cherry, and should ripen even if the summer weather is less than perfect.

  • Flowering group: 3
  • Good pollinator
  • Partially self-fertile
  • Picking: Mid

  • Available rootstocks:
  • Gisela 5
  • Colt

• Sweetheartin stock

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  Sweetheart is one of the best-flavoured late-season cherries for the UK climate.

  • Flowering group: 3
  • Good pollinator
  • Self-fertile
  • Picking: Late

  • Available rootstocks:
  • Gisela 5
  • Colt

• Sylvia

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  Sylvia produces large dark red sweet cherries, ripening in the middle of the cherry season. It is a naturally small tree and grows with a columnar form, useful if space is limited.

  • Flowering group: 4
  • Not self-fertile
  • Picking: Mid