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Alan4711Alan4711 Posts: 1,657
HI all i tried to post a question last week but the site was,nt working right so here we go again ,if it did come through i apolagisz as i cant find it,So i have room for a fan trained cherry or the one that goes horizontal along the wall ?? Now i have a south facing or east wall to use and all will have new soil and manure for starters and whatever they need,Now has anyone got any advise on a nice big black sweet cherry to buy and do i need two or will one be ok by itself,youv guessed iv never had a cherry tree before ,wear moving to a house on the Norfolk coast where a new veg allotment is waiting and a big garden for flowers and fruit is the plan of action ,iv already got loads of advise for blackberries and figs and lots more, so a nice cherry would be great and here this weekend cherries were ??1:40 for 4 ounces no way hosay, big black and sweet please if you can Avaguden Alan4711

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  • 'Cherokee' has been recommended before, sweet,dark and self-fertile.

    Have a Google search for 'sweet dark self fertile cherry'

  • SwissSueSwissSue Posts: 1,447

    This could help Alan:

    http://www.chrisbowers.co.uk/category/cherries/?filter_94=Black+fruited

    They seem to have a huge range of cherries.

  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841

    Even if your cherry tree flowers and bears fruit you could still lose the lot before the birds are even interested. Cherry run-off (fruit sets but drops off) has robbed me of virtually all of my cherries over the last decade and there doesn't seem to be any single cause or cure. Oddly enough it doesn't affect the wild cherry where all the fruit are too high too reach except for the birds which rain down pips on us, only the small Stella. This was meant to be a "minarette" type tree but I can't recommend trying any of those.

    I did see a wonderful example of cherry protection at RHS Wisley, a very large fan trained tree in its own fruit cage. It was about 15 feet wide and high but only about 5 feet deep. Probably be cheaper to buy your own cherry farm!

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