Explore 16 cherry tree varieties that are ... your mind might immediately spring to the beautiful cherry blossoms that unfurl ... sweet cherries encapsulate 'Bing,' 'Rainier,' 'Stella,' and ...

DEAR GARDEN COACH: I have a 25-year-old Bing cherry tree that on some years has produced abundant beautiful fruit and other years only a few cherries. ... flowering and pollination.

Ornamental cherry trees rarely produce fruit but their bold flowers provide nourishment to early season pollinators. These deciduous trees are hardy in Zones 5 to 9 and grow best in full sun .

Many fruit trees can add visual interest to your landscape, too. For instance, Bing cherry trees (Prunus ... If many of the tree's flowers stay healthy throughout the spring and get visited ...

Referring to a wonderful old book, "Cherries of New York," Smith showed me that in 1875, Seth Lewelling of Milwaukie, Ore., grew the first Bing cherry tree from the seed of a Republican cherry; he ...

DEAR GARDEN COACH: I have a 25-year-old Bing cherry tree that on some years has produced abundant beautiful fruit and other years only a few cherries. Last year there were none. What is wrong?

To set fruit, Rainier cherries require a nearby pollinator: another cherry tree, such as a Bing cherry, from which honeybees or other insects can bring pollen to the flowers on your tree to ...

DEAR GARDEN COACH: I have a 25-year-old Bing cherry tree that on some years has produced abundant beautiful fruit and other years only a few cherries. Last year there were none. What is wrong?

Yes, cherry blossom trees can produce fruit, but typically won’t around D.C. or at the Tidal Basin and when they do, these won’t be the kind of cherries you want to put on top of a sundae.