Sunburst cherry trees

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• Picking season: Mid mid / late July
• Self-fertility: Self-fertile

Sunburst is a good modern self-fertile cherry variety, with delicate flesh, and a good sweet mild cherry flavour. It is also easy to pick the large fruits.

It can be considered an improved version of the popular Stella cherry, to which it is closely related and shares many of its good qualities.

Sunburst is a good pollinator for many other sweet cherry varieties.

Sunburst organic cherry trees for sale

Next deliveries: December 2025

• 11 yeartree on Gisela 5 rootstock26.00€
  Medium tree (2m-3.5m after 10 years) Bare-root
  

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• 2Half-standard (2 years)tree on Gisela 6 rootstock35.00€
  Large tree (3m-5m after 10 years) Bare-root
  

  Collection only - contact us

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Click here to view estimated delivery charges. We can deliver to most countries in the EU. However our 2-year trees and some pot-grown trees are too big or unsuitable for mail-order and are only available for collection direct from the nursery. Please contact us if you wish to order.

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If you do not hear from us by March you can contact us to pre-order for next autumn.

Growing and Training

Sunburst is a precocious cherry variety, and starts bearing fruit within 2-4 years.

History

Sunburst was developed by the Summerland research station in British Columbia, Canada and released in 1965. It is a cross between Van and Stella.

Sunburst characteristics

• Gardening skillAverage
• Self-fertilitySelf-fertile
• Flowering group4
• Picking seasonMid - mid / late July
• Season of use1-3 days - in a fridge
• Food usesEating fresh
• Summer average maximum temperaturesCool ( 20-24C / 68-75F)Warm (25-30C / 76-85F)
• Country of originCanada
• Period of origin1950 - 1999
• Flower colourWhite
• Fruit colourRed

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