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All about apples, pears, plums, and cherries - and orchards where they are grown

Cherry varieties

  • Soft, a little fibrous, juicy, good quality.
  • Firm, excellent flavour. Grown commercially in the USA.
  • Roundish oblong. Moderately sweet and firm.
  • An old European sweet cherry, which is well-suited to the North American climate and widely-grown.
  • Hertford Cherry
    Firm, good flavour.
  • Long heart shaped. Soft, fibrous, juicy, sweet, good quality.
  • Round. Firm, a little fibrous, juicy, fair to good quality. Stone small.
  • Round. Firm, moderately juicy, sweet, good quality.
  • Firm, sweet, good flavour.

We are grateful to Martin Crawford of Agroforestry Research Trust, for assistance with cherry data. Martin is also the author of a number of books, most recently Creating a Forest Garden.