Nanking Cherry

Prunus tomentosa 

Nanking Cherry is a wonderful, easy-care bush to add to the landscape. Rosy pink buds cover the shrub in early spring, and open to showy white flowers. Use it as a long hedge along a fence or a single specimen. Or, create an orchard in a backyard homestead. This is the earliest Cherry to flower, and it produces an abundance of tasty cherries. Nanking Cherry is not reliably self-fertile. To achieve fruit set, plant two or more shrubs close by each other to ensure proper cross-pollination for the best fruit production.