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Pollination of Burcombe cherry trees

Burcombe (Prunus avium)  is in flowering group 2. Burcombe is not self-fertile and needs a pollination partner of a different variety nearby.Choose another variety

Varieties that will pollinate Burcombe in our catalogue

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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