Cherry ‘Summer Sun’

‘Summer Sun’ is a great cherry for colder areas of the UK with large crops of tasty dark red fruits in July that have an excellent firmness when ripe. A holder of the prestigious Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), ‘Summer Sun’ is noted for its flavour, reliability, and compact habit. It’s not technically self-fertile, but in practice can be considered partially self-fertile. It will however produce a bigger crop if it is planted near (and therefore cross-pollinated by) ‘Stella’, ‘Van’ or ‘Lapins’ – and it is itself a very good pollinator of other cherries.