Cherry - Bird (Prunus padus) bare root tree saplings/hedging plants

A mature Bird cherry tree (Prunus padus)

Cherry - Bird (Prunus padus)

£0.99

10% off Orders over £1000+VAT

15% off Orders over £2000+VAT

Minimum order value (all plants) is £300+VAT

Free Delivery over £300+VAT excl Highlands and Islands

Please order plants in multiples of 25

Bird cherry (Prunus padus) is

- Suitable as a woodland tree, urban tree, hedgerow tree or hedging plant

- Native

- Deciduous

- Flowering and fruiting

- Foliage is toxic to livestock

Grown at our farm in Herefordshire. Buy with confidence - read our customer reviews.

The specifications shown below are our normal range but we often have additional specifications. if there is something specific that you are looking for, it's often worth contacting us to see if we have some.

Please contact us if you would prefer to order on the phone or have any questions or to discuss a discount for larger quantities.

Our range of Wild Cherry bare root plants (Prunus padus)

Wild Cherry grows fast from seed so we have several sizes available all bare root seedlings (or whips) which were planted from seed in spring and are sold during the following November to April winter months. All these plants are grown by us in Herefordshire.

We always have several batches of seed for this species including UK provenance and the highest quality imported seed so if the seed provenance is important to you please give us a call so that we can allocate your chosen batch.

In addition we have cell grown Wild Cherry which are grown by one of the UK's best specialist growers and these are idea for woodland creation or amenity planting but can also be used for domestic planting schemes and these plants are available all year round.

All our Wild Cherry plants are suitable as hedging plants or can be allowed to grow as full size trees.

You can read more about the specifications we offer on the tab just below the pricing table - to the right of this product description.

Bird Cherry (Prunus padus) Summary

Bird Cherry is a heavily scented belter of a tree when its long racemes (clustered along stalks – like Wisteria) of bee friendly white flowers appear in late April/May, making it quite a late-flowerer and useful due to that to extend the flowering season after blackthorn and hawthorn. Bitter black fruits follow in autumn along with striking yellow/bronze foliage.

It’s a rounded medium sized tree good in woodlands, parks and gardens and due to its pollution tolerance it’s also good in highway schemes in all soils including wetter soils (unusual for a flowering cherry tree) but is not suited to waterlogged soils. It likes to grow in sunlight and is one of the pioneer species of trees (see blog for more information on pioneer trees).

Leaves, flowers and fruits

The leaves of Bird Cherry are oval, 6-10cm long, with a pointed tip and fine serrations along the edges. The leaves can be poisonous to livestock even if ingested in small amounts.

The flowers are highly scented (of almond) and are held in long racemes which means that the clusters of flowers are held along short stalks (like a Wisteria) and this gives a spectacular appearance which makes this tree suitable for gardens and surburban road planting schemes as much as any of the cultivated flowering cherry trees but with the advantages of being a true native.

The cherry fruits are black and bitter – suitable only for birds (especially blackbirds and song thrushes) and small mammals.

Eventual height and growth rate

A small to medium sized tree reaching 10-20m and with an average growth rate of about 40cm pa when young.

Rosaceae family.

Free Delivery

For deliveries of orders over £300 + VAT, (which is our minimum order value) we have free delivery to all mainland areas nationwide. If you are in the Scottish Highlands or any of the Islands, please email us or call us and we will quote you a delivery charge which we will subsidise.

All orders are despatched on pallets and will be delivered to the kerbside. We will email you to tell you when your order has been despatched and that email will contain a link so that you can track your delivery.

You can request a specific delivery date when you place your order and we will do our very best to accommodate that date but cannot be held responsible if we do not meet it.

Collections from Ross-on-Wye

You can collect your plants by arrangement with our office team. Please ring us on 01989 552028 to agree a collection date. The postcode for collections is HR9 7TF.

As a trade nursery, we normally despatch stock unbagged (packed horizontally on pallets) but we can offer two bagging options.

Bagging Options

We have two options for despatching plants in bags (you do not need to have them bagged but it is advisable if there is any delay in planting and where you have large quantities, delay in planting some is inevitable).

- Very heavy duty black bags - normally used by farmers, landowners, landscapers etc

- Co-extruded bags which are white on the outside, to reflect sunlight, and black inside, to retain moisture on the roots - normally used by foresters.

In both cases, there is a considerable labour cost to us in putting stock into bags, and then the air in the bags takes up a considerable amount of space on the pallet which means that we get many fewer plants onto a pallet compared with unbagged stock eg for 1+0 seedlings instead of approx. 10,000 plants per pallet of unbagged stock, we'd only get approx. 5,000 plants per pallet if they are bagged. There's also a significant labour cost in putting plants into bags compared with loose packing on a pallet (which is the normal method for nursery to nursery sales). Given that we pay the delivery cost on most orders, supplying stock in bags is a significant extra cost for us for some customers and hence we make a modest charge.

You can specifically request black or white bags on the website after you add plants to your shopping basket. Here is a link to the page Bagging Service for bare root plants for farms and forestry – rjtreesandhedging. Please order the same quantity as the number of plants you are buying - the pricing for bagging is per plant rather than per bag.