Our Variety Assessment

Its strengths, growing requirements and the conditions in which it performs best.

Blanche d’Harcigny suits gardens and orchards seeking a pale cherry with good texture. Its cream-yellow fruit is firm, crisp and juicy, with a balanced sweet-tart flavour. We recommend it for fresh eating and its heritage value. Like most traditional sweet cherries, it benefits from a compatible pollinator nearby.

Blanche d’Harcigny

Price range: 26,50 € through 42,75 €

Blanche d’Harcigny is white sweet cherry from northern France, which ripens in late June / early July.

Choose your tree form

1 year old grafted tree – approx. 1–2 m

Half-standard – 1 to 1.5 m stem

Low-stem tree – approx. 60 cm stem

Cherry rootstock options

Colt – approx. 4.5 m mature height

GiselA 5 – approx. 2.5 m mature height

GiselA 6 – approx. 3.5 m mature height

Mazzard – approx. 8 m mature height

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SKU: 1450 Category: Cherry trees

Description

Blanche d’Harcigny is white sweet cherry from northern France – the cherries are actually a creamy-yellow colour. It has a well-balanced sweet/sharp flavour.

It is known as a “bigarreau” style cherry because of the firm juicy flesh.

The cherries ripen in late June or early July.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Old regional yellow cherry variety found several times in Avesnois-Thiérache, notably at Dompierre-sur-Helpe (59) and Harcigny (02), origin date not found.

Origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Eating / keeping period

1-3 days

Use

Fresh eating