With the right variety, location, and care, you can successfully grow and harvest delicious cherries in your backyard.

Despite its small frame that settles at around 15 feet, the Royal Ann cherry tree (Prunus avium 'Royal Ann') packs a massive punch — around 50 pounds heavy — because it produces so copiously.

Whether you are searching for an ornamental cherry or a fruiting cherry, this guide will help you find the right tree for your yard.

Study area. The study site (), located at Fawkham Green, Kent, UK (51:21:39N, 0:16:34E) consists of three contiguous woods (A, B and C) each of which contain wild cherry (Prunus avium L.).The ...

The genus name, Prunus, means plum or cherry tree and the specific epithet, serotina, from the Latin word for “late”, refers to its late flowering and fruiting as compared with other cherries.

Prunus serotina, also commonly called wild black cherry, rum cherry, or mountain black cherry, is a woody plant species belonging to the genus Prunus. This cherry is native to eastern North ...

Sweet cherries (Prunus avium), sometimes called bird cherries or, in their wilder state, mazzard cherries, were among the plants ordered from Europe by the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1629.

Prunus avium: sweet cherry. Photograph: Feifei Cui-Paoluzzo/Getty . Fionnuala Fallon. Sun Mar 23 2025 - 05:00. We moved house a few years ago, with a cherry tree in the east-facing front garden, ...

Black cherry will grow in sun or partial shade, 70 to 90 feet tall, in average to well-drained soil in the eastern United States, as far south as the Tampa/Orlando area. What you plant in your ...