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cherry (sweet) 'Summer Sun' | Plant Finder | Fill My Garden

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cherry (sweet) 'Summer Sun'

Prunus avium 'Summer Sun' (D)

★ RHS AGMPollinator Friendly

Genus: Prunus
Family: Rosaceae

About this plant

'Summer Sun' is a moderately vigorous sweet cherry with an attractive upright, spreading habit. Produces very good crops of firm, well-flavoured red to black fruit, cropping in late July. Not self fertile. Pollination group 4

Growing Information

Height

2.5-4 Metres

Spread

2.5-4 Metres

Hardiness

Foliage

Deciduous

Growing Conditions

Sunlight

Full Sun

Soil

ClayChalkLoamSandy

AcidAlkaline

Not Currently Available

This plant is not currently stocked at any garden centres on our platform.

Neutral

Moisture

Poorly DrainedWell Drained

Aspect

West FacingEast Facing

Exposure

Exposed

Care Guide

Cultivation

Grow in moderately fertile soil in full sun. Cherries are best suited to fan-training so they can be netted against bird damage and protected from frosts. Further sweet cherry cultivation advice

Pruning

Train fan-trained trees in spring. Prune established fans and carry out routine pruning on established cherry trees when harvesting the fruits in summer

Propagation

Propagate by chip budding or grafting on clonal rootstock for fruit

Pests

Protect trees from birds that damage buds and eat the fruit. May suffer from aphids, caterpillars, leaf-mining moths and winter moth caterpillars

Diseases

May be affected by silver leaf and blossom wilt but shows some resistance to bacterial canker

Garden Uses

Planting Places

Wall Trained

Season of Interest

SpringSummer

Size & Characteristics

Height

2.5-4 Metres

Spread

2.5-4 Metres

Habit

Bushy

Time to Full Height

Ten To Twenty Years