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Pollination of Athos cherry trees

Athos (Prunus avium)  is in flowering group 3. Athos 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 Athos 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

• Black Oliver

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  A traditional English black cherry from the West Midlands.

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

• Burcombein stock

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  A dark red / black cherry from the Tamar valley.

  • Flowering group: 2
  • Not self-fertile
  • Picking: Late

  • Available rootstocks:
  • Colt

• Celestein stock

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  Celeste is a compact dark red/black cherry, one of the best early-season varieties, with a sweet mild flavour.

  • Flowering group: 2
  • Self-fertile
  • Picking: Early

  • Available rootstocks:
  • Gisela 5

• 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

• Early Red Maralyin stock

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  Early Red is a modern dark red sweet cherry with a firm flesh.

  • Flowering group: 2
  • Not self-fertile
  • Picking: Early

  • 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

• Lapinsin stock

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  Perhaps the best all-round sweet cherry for the UK. Easy to grow, with heavy crops of good-flavoured cherries.

  • Flowering group: 2
  • Self-fertile
  • Picking: Mid

  • Available rootstocks:
  • Gisela 5
  • Colt

• Merchantin stock

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  An early-season black/red cherry with a good flavour.

  • Flowering group: 2
  • Good pollinator
  • Not self-fertile
  • Picking: Early

  • Available rootstocks:
  • Gisela 5

• Merton Gloryin stock

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  A well-known mid-season English white cherry.

  • Flowering group: 2
  • Good pollinator
  • Not self-fertile
  • Picking: Early

  • Available rootstocks:
  • Colt

• Nimba

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  Nimba is a modern large-fruited red sweet cherry, ripening right at the start of the cherry season.

  • Flowering group: 2
  • Not self-fertile
  • Picking: Very early

• Pacific Red

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  Pacific Red is a modern large-fruited red sweet cherry with a firm flesh.

  • Flowering group: 2
  • 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

• 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

• Stellain stock

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  If you only want to grow one cherry tree, choose Stella - self-fertile, easy to grow, and a good pollinator.

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

  • 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

• Sunburstin stock

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  Sunburst is a large red mid-season cherry with a good sweet mild flavour, and notably easy to pick.

  • Flowering group: 4
  • 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
  • Gisela 6
  • 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

• Tamara

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  Tamara has probably the largest fruit size of any of the cherry varieties we offer.

  • Flowering group: 2
  • Not self-fertile
  • Picking: Late

• Waterloo

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  Waterloo is a traditional English sweet cherry with a red / black skin.

  • Flowering group: 2
  • Not self-fertile
  • Picking: Mid