Nanking Cherry
One of the prettiest flowering shrubs of spring becomes one of the most bountiful fruits of early summer! The profusion of blossoms is so great as to almost completely hide the branches behind masses of white-pink petals. Nanking cherries are also VERY tough shrubs. They’re native to arid and frigid regions like the Himalayas and Russia so they can shrug off drought and extreme cold. Those traits, along with the manageable size (6-10 ft. tall and wide), make them one of the easiest shrubs to establish in most landscapes. The fruit is about the size of a tart cherry, and taste somewhere between a tart cherry and a sweet cherry when fully ripe. Also makes one of the best edible hedges, perhaps second only to hazelnuts. Not self pollinating so at least two shrubs are needed for fruit set.
Zones 3-7 maybe even 2 with a good location
Ships as a dormant bare-root plant
One of the prettiest flowering shrubs of spring becomes one of the most bountiful fruits of early summer! The profusion of blossoms is so great as to almost completely hide the branches behind masses of white-pink petals. Nanking cherries are also VERY tough shrubs. They’re native to arid and frigid regions like the Himalayas and Russia so they can shrug off drought and extreme cold. Those traits, along with the manageable size (6-10 ft. tall and wide), make them one of the easiest shrubs to establish in most landscapes. The fruit is about the size of a tart cherry, and taste somewhere between a tart cherry and a sweet cherry when fully ripe. Also makes one of the best edible hedges, perhaps second only to hazelnuts. Not self pollinating so at least two shrubs are needed for fruit set.
Zones 3-7 maybe even 2 with a good location
Ships as a dormant bare-root plant
One of the prettiest flowering shrubs of spring becomes one of the most bountiful fruits of early summer! The profusion of blossoms is so great as to almost completely hide the branches behind masses of white-pink petals. Nanking cherries are also VERY tough shrubs. They’re native to arid and frigid regions like the Himalayas and Russia so they can shrug off drought and extreme cold. Those traits, along with the manageable size (6-10 ft. tall and wide), make them one of the easiest shrubs to establish in most landscapes. The fruit is about the size of a tart cherry, and taste somewhere between a tart cherry and a sweet cherry when fully ripe. Also makes one of the best edible hedges, perhaps second only to hazelnuts. Not self pollinating so at least two shrubs are needed for fruit set.
Zones 3-7 maybe even 2 with a good location
Ships as a dormant bare-root plant