Sweet cherries

Sweet cherries are primarily used for eating fresh - for best flavour eat straight from the tree.

Amber Heart
The most popular traditional English white cherry, widely known as Kent Bigarreau.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Athos®
A natural dwarf sweet cherry tree, unlikely to get much bigger than 2m.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Black Oliver
A traditional English black cherry from the West Midlands.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Burcombe
A dark red / black cherry from the Tamar valley.
£57.75buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Celeste
Celeste is a compact dark red/black cherry, one of the best early-season varieties, with a sweet mild flavour.
£64.50buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Colney
Colney is a large modern late-season English dessert cherry, dark red/black, with a good flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Early Red Maraly®
Early Red is a modern dark red sweet cherry with a firm flesh.
£54.00buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Felicita®
A modern self-fertile dark-red cherry, notable for its very large cherries.
£64.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Hertford
A large dark red English cherry with a good flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Knight's Early Black
A traditional English early-season black cherry
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Kordia
Kordia is a large late-season true black cherry variety with a good balanced cherry flavour.
£38.75 - £54.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Lapins
Perhaps the best all-round sweet cherry for the UK. Easy to grow, with heavy crops of good-flavoured cherries.
£40.50 - £63.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Merton Glory
A well-known mid-season English white cherry.
£38.75 - £57.75buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Napoleon Bigarreau
A traditional white cherry, with an excellent flavour and appearance.
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Nimba®
Nimba is a modern large-fruited red sweet cherry, ripening right at the start of the cherry season.
- Picking season: Very early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Pacific Red®
Pacific Red is a modern large-fruited red sweet cherry with a firm flesh.
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Penny
Penny is a high quality late-season black cherry - ripening in mid-August.
£38.75 - £45.50buy
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Regina
Regina is a new late-season sweet black cherry, with a good flavour and resistance to splitting.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Skeena®
One of the best of the Canadian late-season cherries.
£40.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
StardustTM
Stardust is a new mid-season white cherry which is also fully self-fertile.
£59.00 - £64.50buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Stella
If you only want to grow one cherry tree, choose Stella - self-fertile, easy to grow, and a good pollinator.
£38.75 - £63.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Summer Sun
Summer Sun is productive mid-season cherry, and should ripen even if the summer weather is less than perfect.
£38.75 - £63.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Sunburst
Sunburst is a large red mid-season cherry with a good sweet mild flavour, and notably easy to pick.
£38.75 - £63.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Sweetheart
Sweetheart is one of the best-flavoured late-season cherries for the UK climate.
£40.50 - £64.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Sylvia
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.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Waterloo
Waterloo is a traditional English sweet cherry with a red / black skin.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile