The delicious fruits from the 'Athos' cherry bush are super sweet and have an old fashioned mouth-watering aromatic flavour – each totally winter hardy bush will produce up to 5kg of fruit each year, once fully established.
Because it grows in a naturally dwarf bush habit and on its own roots, rather than as a tall grafted tree, you can pick your heavy crop of tasty cherries from each branch, easily and from the safety of ground level every summer, from early July here in the UK - so no ‘Cherry Pickers’ required!
'Athos' is perfect for more-or-less any garden and is even suitable for pot growing - it could even be grown as the ultimate productive hedge! Plus, this is a self fertile variety, therefore does not need to be planted near another fruit tree for pollination.
Supplied as a 60–70cm tall plant in a 3L pot. Growing to an eventual height of 2m.
Pot-grown shrubs can be planted at any time of the year as long as the soil is not waterlogged or frozen. If in doubt, err towards spring but remember to keep pots well-watered so that the soil does not dry out.
Birds will quickly strip the ripening cherries from the tree - drape netting over cherry trees to protect the fruit from birds.
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