Brooks Sweet Cherry Tree

The sweet and delicious Brooks Cherry Tree (Prunus avium 'Brooks') is a large, firm red cherry that tolerates hot climates! It has a well-balanced sweetness with both rich complex flavor and a perfectly sweet-tart blackberry-like finish. Start the year with fresh green spring foliage and pink buds that burst open into darling white blooms! Pollinators will flock to these in droves!

After the gorgeous blooms fade, you'll be sitting on the edge of your seat watching the fruit ripen and turn a brilliant red among the glossy, long pointed green leaves that fill out this tree! Shiny red-skinned fruit are smooth and ripen around May - June each year depending on your growing zone! You'll enjoy pies, pastries, smoothies, ice cream, preserves and bowls of fresh eating homegrown goodness if you can beat the birds to your harvest.

The Brooks Sweet Cherry is not self-fertile and will need a partner tree to boost pollination. Try a Rainier to increase your harvest. No room for two trees? Try high-density planting techniques or prune your trees smaller to suit your space! Best in areas without high humidity and large amounts of rainfall, these perform incredibly in USDA hardiness zones 4-9.

Planting and Application:

Brooks forms a good-sized shade tree and is an impressive flowering ornamental when the bountiful drifts of white blossoms explode. You'll stop traffic each spring and again when the glossy red gems are dangling on every branch! Growing 15-20 feet in mature height and mature width! You can always prune these smaller for easier harvesting or for tucking into established landscapes and orchards.

Cherry Trees like Brooks form beautiful canopies and branching, plus lovely bark color for winter interest. The limbs cast ample shade over garden beds and borders, and provide dense screening and privacy when used in groups and hedgerows or even windbreaks that serve as double-duty edible landscaping ornamental flowering trees!

• Sweet White Blossoms
• Ruby Red Glossy Fruit Ripens May-June
• Glossy Green Foliage
• Sweet-Tart Rich Complex Flavor
• Requires a Pollinator Partner

#ProPlantTips for Care:

Cherry Trees do best in full sun, the more the merrier! Enjoy more blooms and therefore fruit in a minimum of 6 hours of direct sunlight a day. Plant your tree in well-drained, fertile and highly organic soil with a 3-4 inch layer of arborist mulch over the root system. Prune while dormant to remove dead, broken or diseased branches and to open the canopy for air circulation and size control.

• Full Sun
• Moderate Consistent Moisture
• Any Fertile Well-Drained Soil
• Prune Late Winter to Early Spring
• 400 - 600 Chill Hours

Brooks Cherry Tree is an incredible blooming and fruiting ornamental tree with sweet and juicy fruit you and your family will love! Order your heat-tolerant trees and get your orchard delivered to your doorstep by the expert fruit tree growers at NatureHills.com!

Recommended Pollinator: Rainier