Summer Sun is a modern English dark red cherry variety with firm crisp flesh and a good flavour. It is one of the best cherry varieties for the UK, being a reliable cropper even if the summer weather is indifferent.
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Fan-trained and Espalier trees: Prices of these trees do NOT include delivery as these require special delivery arrangements - click here for details.
Delivery period: Pot-grown trees can be delivered from September onwards. Bare-root trees can be delivered from mid-November onwards. Within those periods you can specify your preferred month of delivery during the checkout process. It is best to order as soon as you can to ensure items are reserved for you.
*Mature heights: Height shown is the approximate height of the tree when mature (after 5-10 years), not the height when supplied. See photos of trees as supplied. Actual mature heights may vary considerably dependent on your local conditions and training and pruning regime.
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Summer Sun is partially self-fertile, but fruiting will be improved if there is a compatible tree of a different variety nearby. Since it flowers in the middle of the blossom season it can be pollinated by most other cherry trees.
Our online pollination checker lists suitable pollination partners for this variety.
More advice about pollination.
Summer Sun is not fully self-fertile, although it will set a crop on its own - however you will get better results if there is another compatible variety nearby such as Stella or Van or Lapins. Summer Sun is itself a good pollinator of other cherry varieties.
Summer Sun grows with a compact spreading habit - if you select the Gisela 5 rootstock it makes a good choice for smaller gardens.
Planting instructions.
Pruning instructions.
Developed in the 1960s at the John Innes research institute, Norfolk UK.
