The most popular of the sweet cherries. These range in skin colur from bright red to almost black. The colour can vary considerably depending on the amount of sunshine and degree of ripeness.
- 1Early Rivers
A large dry sweet cherry with mild acidity. Once widely grown in Kent.
- 2Emperor Francis
Exceptional cherry. A dark red sweet cherry with a pleasingly soft buttery texture which tastes like fine tawny port.
- 3Inga
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A large juicy dark red cherry with a delightful buttery texture and deep rich flavour, one of my favourite fruits of the year
- 4Kordia
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A new sweet cherry. Large dark red/black fruit resistant to cracking. A good blend of modern and heritage cherry characteristics with a much milder flavour than the richest heritage varieties
- 5Lapins
Also known as Cherokee, this is very popular heavy cropping self-fertile sweet cherry. A late cherry with with dry/meaty texture and mild sweet flavour.
- 6Merchant
An excellent giant cherry with a perfectly balanced rich flavour which melts in your mouth
- 7Mermat
An Excellent large black cherry, sweet buttery/soft texture balanced perfectly with a subtle acidic aftertaste.
- 8Merton Bigarreau
A delicious sweet dark red sweet cherry with white flesh. Very unusual.
- 9Pat
An excellent sweet black cherry, very juicy and buttery/soft texture, thick skin.
- 10Penny
A modern cherry raised at East Malling in Kent. Big, meaty and dry. Can develop a rich/acidic flavour when fully ripe.
- 11Stella
The most popular sweet cherry in the UK. Self-fertile and reliable cropper.
- 12Summer Sun
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An excellent sweet cherry with good frost tolerance particularly suitable for colder locations.
- 13Summit
A large dark red cherry once grown commercially in Kent. The flesh is meaty and richly flavoured with a good balance of intense sweetness and some aciditity.
- 14Sunburst
A heavy cropping self fertile cherry producing large sweet almost dark red cherries. The flesh is meaty and slightly juicy and has a light rich/sweet flavour
- 15Sweetheart
One of the most popular modern commercial self-fertile eating cherries. meaty/dry texture and sweet when fully ripe.
Also known as white cherries these have yellow skins flushed with differing amounts of red. The flesh is white.
These are modern sweet cherry varieties which produce excellent quality fruit and are self-fertile so can be grown on their own.