The Sam Cherry Tree is very similar to the Bing cherry with dark, shiny, medium sized fruit but it is a little more tart than its sweet cousin. The tree bears heavy and is resistant to cracking.

Latin Name: Prunus avium
Site and Soil: Cherries like 1/2 day to full sun and well-drained soil.
Rootstock Description: Colt is considered a semi-dwarf rootstock which produces trees about 80% of standard size. Colt is adapted to most soils and is hardy, vigorous, productive, and forms a well-branched tree. Sweet Cherries on Colt rootstock can grow to 12-15 ft. in height.
Pollination Requirements: Needs a pollinator and we suggest Bing, Royal Ann, and Lambert
Hardiness: Hardy to about minus 20 ° F.
Bearing Age: 2 – 3 years after planting.
Size at Maturity: 12-15 ft. in height.
Taste: Sweet-tart
Fruit Skin: Dark red
Bloom Time: Early April
Ripening Time: August
Yield: 50+ lbs.
Pests & Diseases: Bacterial Canker can damage Cherry trees. Symptoms of bacterial canker are dead branches and bronze colored exudation on branches or trunk. Apply a fall and winter copper spray to help prevent damage from this disease. To repel birds, you can cover your trees with netting or use flash tape to scare them away.
USDA Zone: 5-9

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Meteor Cherry Tree is genetically dwarf and only grows to about 10 feet in height. Meteor fruit is large, bright red with a clear yellowish flesh. It is a tart cherry and mainly used as a pie cherry.

Great fruit trees for the home garden, Pie Cherries are smaller trees than sweet cherries. They are covered with abundant flowers in late spring and produce heavy crops of tart and flavorful fruit, great for baking and making juice.

Latin Name: Prunus cerasus
Site and Soil: Cherries like 1/2 day to full sun and well-drained soil.
Rootstock Description: 
Pollination Requirements: Self-fertile.
Hardiness: Hardy to about minus 40°F or below.
Bearing Age: 2 – 3 years after planting.
Size at Maturity: This tree is genetically dwarf and only grows to about 10ft. tall.
Taste: Tart
Fruit Skin: Bright red
Fruit Flesh: Clear, yellowish
Bloom Time: Early April
Ripening Time: Mid to late harvest
Yield: 50+ lbs.
Pests & Diseases: Bacterial Canker can damage Cherry trees. Symptoms of bacterial canker are dead branches and bronze colored exudation on branches or trunk. Apply a fall and winter copper spray to help prevent damage from this disease. To repel birds, you can cover your trees with netting or use flash tape to scare them away.
USDA Zone: 3

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Hardier than most Sweet Cherries, the Kristin Cherry Tree has withstood temperatures to minus 25 degrees F., and below. Kristin Cherry produces abundant, large, dark burgundy fruit with flavorful, firm and juicy flesh.

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Latin Name: Prunus avium
Site and Soil: Cherries like 1/2 day to full sun and well-drained soil.
Rootstock Description: Colt is considered a semi-dwarf rootstock which produces trees about 80% of standard size. Colt is adapted to most soils and is hardy, vigorous, productive, and forms a well-branched tree.
Pollination Requirements: Requires another Sweet Cherry variety nearby for cross-pollination.
Hardiness: Hardy to minus 25°F.
Bearing Age: 2 – 3 years after planting.
Size at Maturity: 12-15 ft. in height.
Taste: Sweet, juicy
Fruit Skin: Dark burgundy
Bloom Time: Early April
Ripening Time: July
Yield: 50+ lbs.
Pests & Diseases: Bacterial Canker can damage Cherry trees. Symptoms of bacterial canker are dead branches and bronze colored exudation on branches or trunk. Apply a fall and winter copper spray to help prevent damage from this disease. To repel birds, you can cover your trees with netting or use flash tape to scare them away.
USDA Zone: 4-8

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A favorite sweet cherry for home gardeners and commercial growers, Stella is prized for its large, sweet and juicy cherries. It makes a great pollenizer for other cherry trees and is also completely self-fertile, so if you only have room for one cherry tree, this is a great option.

One of our favorite fruits! Everyone loves ripe Cherries, especially sweet and delicious ones picked from your own tree. Enjoy Cherries fresh, dried, or frozen plus make delicious baked goods and juice. We offer the best varieties for the Northwest as well as for other regions of the U.S.

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Latin Name: Prunus avium
Site and Soil: 1/2 day to full sun and well-drained soil.
Rootstock Description: Mazzard is a standard rootstock for sweet cherries. Vigorous, more tolerant of wet soils than Mahaleb (but good drainage still required). Resistant to root-knot nematodes and oak-root fungus.
Pollination Requirements: Self-fertile
Hardiness: Hardy to minus 20° F. or below.
Bearing Age: 2 – 3 years after planting.
Size at Maturity: 20-35 ft. in height.
Taste: Sweet
Fruit Skin: Dark red, almost black
Bloom Time: Early April
Ripening Time: July
Yield: 50+ lbs.
Pests & Diseases: Bacterial Canker can damage Cherry trees. Symptoms of bacterial canker are dead branches and bronze colored exudation on branches or trunk. Apply a fall and winter copper spray to help prevent damage from this disease. To repel birds, you can cover your trees with netting or use flash tape to scare them away.
USDA Zone: 5-8

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A new completely self-fertile sweet cherry, Garnet Girl produces large sweet cherries with a dark nearly black skin. Trees are relatively disease resistant, and the fruits resist brown rot.

Latin Name: Prunus avium
Site and Soil: Cherries like 1/2 day to full sun and well-drained soil.
Rootstock Description: Gisela 12 is considered a semi-dwarfing rootstock which produces trees about 60% of one grown on a Mazzard. Gisela 12 is adaptable to most soils and is hardy, precocious, productive, and forms an open, spreading, stocky tree. Sweet Cherries on Gisela 12 are very resistant to viruses and suckering.
Pollination Requirements: Self-fertile
Hardiness: Hardy to about minus 20°F or below.
Bearing Age: 2 – 3 years after planting.
Size at Maturity: 15-20 ft. in height.
Taste: Sweet
Fruit Skin: Very dark, nearly black
Bloom Time: Early April
Ripening Time: Mid Season
Yield: 50+ lbs.
Pests & Diseases: Bacterial Canker can damage Cherry trees. Symptoms of bacterial canker are dead branches and bronze colored exudation on branches or trunk. Apply a fall and winter copper spray to help prevent damage from this disease. To repel birds, you can cover your trees with netting or use flash tape to scare them away.
USDA Zone: 5-8

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The Royal Ann Cherry Tree or Napoleon Cherry tree is an upright growing tree having very large fruit. The Royal Ann Cherry Tree is an all around cherry with a sweet flavor and skin color that is light yellow with a pinkish blush.

Latin Name: Prunus avium
Site and Soil: Cherries like 1/2 day to full sun and well-drained soil.
Rootstock Description: Krimsk 5
Pollination Requirements: Requires another sweet cherry for pollination. Van Cherry Tree is a good Pollinator
Hardiness: Hardy to about minus 20°F or below.
Bearing Age: 2 – 3 years after planting.
Size at Maturity: 15-20 ft. in height.
Taste: Sweet
Fruit Skin: Light yellow with pinkish blush
Bloom Time: Early April
Ripening Time: Mid Season
Yield: 50+ lbs.
Pests & Diseases: Bacterial Canker can damage Cherry trees. Symptoms of bacterial canker are dead branches and bronze colored exudation on branches or trunk. Apply a fall and winter copper spray to help prevent damage from this disease. To repel birds, you can cover your trees with netting or use flash tape to scare them away.
USDA Zone: 5-8

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Van Cherry Tree has medium sized fruit that is very similar to the Bing Cherry in color but a little more tart in flavor. The tree bears heavy crops and is resistant to cracking.

Latin Name: Prunus avium
Site and Soil: Cherries like 1/2 day to full sun and well-drained soil.
Rootstock Description: Maxma 14
Pollination Requirements: Needs another cherry for pollination. Plant with Royal Ann or another sweet cherry for good cross-pollination.
Hardiness: Hardy to about minus 20°F or below.
Bearing Age: 2 – 3 years after planting.
Size at Maturity: 12-15 ft. in height.
Taste: Sweet-tart
Fruit Skin: Dark burgundy
Bloom Time: Early April
Ripening Time: Mid Season
Yield: 50+ lbs.
Pests & Diseases: Bacterial Canker can damage Cherry trees. Symptoms of bacterial canker are dead branches and bronze colored exudation on branches or trunk. Apply a fall and winter copper spray to help prevent damage from this disease. To repel birds, you can cover your trees with netting or use flash tape to scare them away.
USDA Zone: 5-8

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Sweetheart Cherry Tree is a late harvest tree that grows upright. It has large, sweet, bright red fruit. This tree is also self-fertile making it a great addition to a small orchard looking for diversity.

Latin Name: Prunus avium
Site and Soil: Cherries like 1/2 day to full sun and well-drained soil.
Rootstock Description: Colt is considered a semi-dwarf rootstock which produces trees about 80% of standard size. Colt is adapted to most soils and is hardy, vigorous, productive, and forms a well-branched tree. Sweet Cherries on Colt rootstock can grow to 12-15 ft. in height.
Pollination Requirements: Self-fertile.
Hardiness: Hardy to about minus 20° F or below.
Bearing Age: 2 – 3 years after planting.
Size at Maturity: 12-15 ft. in height.
Taste: Sweet
Fruit Skin: Bright red
Bloom Time: April
Ripening Time: Late Season
Yield: 50+ lbs.
Pests & Diseases: Bacterial Canker can damage Cherry trees. Symptoms of bacterial canker are dead branches and bronze colored exudation on branches or trunk. Apply a fall and winter copper spray to help prevent damage from this disease. To repel birds, you can cover your trees with netting or use flash tape to scare them away.
USDA Zone: 5-8

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Bing Cherry tree produces heavy crops and has a spreading tree. It is one of the most popular cherry because of it’s commercial viability. It has large fruit that is dark burgundy in color, meaty, sweet, and juicy. It is excellent for fresh eating or canning.

One of our favorite fruits! Everyone loves ripe Cherries, especially sweet and delicious ones picked from your own tree. Enjoy Cherries fresh, dried, or frozen plus make delicious baked goods and juice. We offer the best varieties for the Northwest as well as for other regions of the U.S.

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Latin Name: Prunus avium
Site and Soil: 1/2 day to full sun and well-drained soil.
Rootstock Description: Colt is considered a semi-dwarf rootstock which produces trees about 80% of standard size. Colt is adapted to most soils and is hardy, vigorous, productive, and forms a well-branched tree.
Pollination Requirements: Requires another cherry variety for cross-pollination. We suggest Royal Ann, Lambert, or Sam.
Hardiness: Hardy to about minus 20° F or below.
Bearing Age: 2-3 years after planting.
Size at Maturity: 12-15 ft. in height.
Taste: Sweet, juicy
Fruit Skin: Dark Burgundy
Bloom Time: Early April
Ripening Time: August
Yield: 50+ lbs.
Pests & Diseases: Bacterial Canker can damage Cherry trees. Symptoms of bacterial canker are dead branches and bronze colored exudation on branches or trunk. Apply a fall and winter copper spray to help prevent damage from this disease. To repel birds, you can cover your trees with netting or use flash tape to scare them away.
USDA Zone: 5-8

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Compact Stella Cherry is a unique, self-fertile Cherry that should grow to only about 10-12 ft. in height. Compact Stella begins bearing within a year or two after planting and bears large, tasty, almost black fruit. As with all “self-fertile” stone fruits you should still plant 1 or more other types for increased pollination and fruit production.

One of our favorite fruits! Everyone loves ripe Cherries, especially sweet and delicious ones picked from your own tree. Enjoy Cherries fresh, dried, or frozen plus make delicious baked goods and juice. We offer the best varieties for the Northwest as well as for other regions of the U.S.

Help your bare root trees succeed with our Transplanting Bundle found here.

Latin Name: Prunus avium
Site and Soil: 1/2 day to full sun and well-drained soil.
Rootstock Description: Mazzard is a standard rootstock for sweet cherries. Vigorous, more tolerant of wet soils than Mahaleb (but good drainage still required). Resistant to root-knot nematodes and oak-root fungus.
Pollination Requirements: Self-fertile
Hardiness: Hardy to minus 20° F. or below.
Bearing Age: 2 – 3 years after planting.
Size at Maturity: 10-12 ft. in height.
Taste: Sweet
Fruit Skin: Dark red, almost black
Bloom Time: Early April
Ripening Time: July
Yield: 50+ lbs.
Pests & Diseases: Bacterial Canker can damage Cherry trees. Symptoms of bacterial canker are dead branches and bronze colored exudation on branches or trunk. Apply a fall and winter copper spray to help prevent damage from this disease. To repel birds, you can cover your trees with netting or use flash tape to scare them away.
USDA Zone: 5-8

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