We grow a good range of self fertile sweet cherry trees that do not need to be pollinated. However, more than half of our range, including all the earliest cropping cherries, will need a pollination partner to bear fruit.
Use our pollination tool to quickly find partners for a given tree.
Pollination Groups:
Pollination groups represent flowering periods, and trees will cross pollinate with other trees in their own group and adjacent groups, e.g. a tree in Pollination Group C will cross pollinate with trees in groups B, C, and D
Cherry Tree Pollination Table
| Name | Harvest | Pollination Group | Fertility |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early Rivers | Early | A | Self Sterile |
| Celeste | Early | B | Self Fertile |
| Knight's Early Black | Mid | B | Self Sterile |
| Merton Glory | Mid | B | Self Sterile |
| Amber Heart | Early | C | Self Sterile |
| Merton Bigarreau | Mid | C | Self Sterile |
| Petit Noir | Mid | C | Self Fertile |
| Van | Late | C | Self Sterile Excellent Pollinator |
| Colney | Late | D | Self Sterile |
| Lapins Cherokee | Mid | D | Self Fertile |
| Bigarreau Napoleon | Late | D | Self Sterile Poor Pollinator |
| Penny | Late | D | Self Sterile |
| Skeena | Late | D | Self Fertile |
| Stella | Late | D | Self Fertile Excellent Pollinator |
| Summer Sun | Late | D | Self Fertile |
| Sunburst | Late | D | Self Fertile |
| Sweetheart | V Late | D | Self Fertile |
| Vega | Late | D | Self Sterile |
| Kordia | Mid | E | Self Sterile |
| Morello (Sour Cherry) | Late | F | Self Fertile |
Note that pollination group letters are interchangeable with numbers, so pollination group A is the same as pollination group 1.
Use our easy pollination tables for other fruit trees.