Awhile ago I germinated some Nanking Cherry seed I bought from Lawyer Nursery and planted a lot of the seedlings out. All of the fruit is red, except to my delighted surprise, one of the plants bear white cherries.
Tag Archives: Prunus tomentosa
Nanking Cherry Seedlings
The Nanking Cherry bushes are a great ornamental that provides reliable fruiting most years. . The seeds tend to germinate very easy, as can be seen from the above photo.
Nanking Cherry Fruit Production
Now that my Nanking Cherries are getting older, I am getting reliable fruit production most years. The fruit on the Nanking Cherry(Prunus tomentosa) is small and the birds like it, also.
Nanking Cherry Spring Show
The Nanking Cherries(Prunus tomentosa) are some of the earliest flowering bushes around. They were full of flowers this spring.
Nanking Cherry Fruit
The Nanking Cherry is producing some fruit this year. The birds are quickly eating this fruit this year, because the hard Spring freeze knocked out other fruiting plants.