R J Trees and Hedging Ltd Registered office The School, The Green, Biddestone, SN14 7DG, United Kingdom, Registered in GB
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Cherry Plum/ Myrobalan (Prunus cerasifera)
£0.89
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
Key Features
Cherry plum (Prunus cerasifera) is
- Suitable as a woodland tree, hedgerow tree, hedging plant or windbreak tree
- Non-native but naturalised
- Deciduous
- Flowering and fruiting
-Non toxic to animals
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 options. If there is something that you are looking for, it's often worth contacting us.
Please contact us if you would prefer to order on the phone or have any questions or to discuss a discount for larger quantities.
Full Product Description
Our range of Cherry plum bare root plants (Prunus cerasifera) Also known as Myrobalan Plum. Rosaceae family
Cherry plum plants 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.
All our cherry plum plants are suitable as hedging plants or can be allowed to grow as full size trees.
Cherry Plum (Prunus cerasifera) Summary
A hugely useful tree or hedging plant due to it's exceptionally early flowering, which makes it a lifesaving provider of early pollen and in addition this species has many other useful attributes - it produces fruits, is good in most soils and exposed or sheltered sites, in sun or partial shade, and makes a good windbreak as well as a tree (if allowed to grow) or hedging plant particularly in mixed native hedgerows and it lays well. It has a somewhat untidy habit when mature, great for nesting birds and hedgerows and occasional spines.
Leaves, flowers, fruits and bark
The leaves of Cherry plum are slender oval in shape, 3-6cm long, with a pointed tip and fine serrations along the edges and are downy on the underside.
The flowers burst open very early, often in February (before Blackthorn). They are white to very pale pink, about 2cm in size, with 5 petals and a lot of stamens.
The plum fruits (drupes) ripen during late summer and are small, edible though quite tart (ok for jam f you can get to them before the birds) and are yellow with red blush colour – great for birds (especially blackbirds and song thrushes) and small mammals.
The young stems are green and downy. Bark is grey and fissures when mature.
Soil and Situation
Cherry plum is a hardy species, good in most well drained soils, with a preference for lighter soils but will grow in clay. It will grow well in full sun or partial shade. It's good in exposed sites as well as sheltered ones. Generally, it's not a fussy plant as long as there is decent drainage.
Eventual height and growth rate
A small tree reaching up to 8m if grown as a tree but is most often found as hedging plant or windbreak.
Delivery Information
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.