fruit shrub
Nanking cherry
Plant more than one seedling or cultivar for better fruit set.
Growing Profile
- Hardiness
- Zones 2b-7b
- Sun
- full
- Soil
- loam, sandy
- Water
- low
- Goals
- Fruit, Pollinators & wildlife, Curb appeal & color, Privacy & screening
Harvest & Use
red cherries in early summer
Useful search phrase: Nanking cherry bush.
Plant Relationships
Understory Medium
Low alliums and long-blooming flowers can form a simple orchard-edge understory without competing heavily with young trees.