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

Cherry varieties

  • Tamara Cherry
    Tamara is a modern red/black eating cherry with exceptionally large fruit size.
  • Roundish-heart shaped. Firm, sweet, aromatic, excellent flavour.
  • Techlovicka II Cherry
    A synonym for Kordia.
  • Roundish-heart shaped. Firm sweet, slightly acid. Stone small.
  • Does not form doubles.
  • Heart-shaped. Soft, juicy, pleasant flavour.
  • Heart-shaped. Very firm, moderately juicy, fair quality. Stone medium. Recommended for canning.
  • Heart-shaped. Fairly soft, rather fibrous, juicy, fair to good quality.

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.