Oak Summit Nursery choices

Evans cherry or sour cherry seedlings

Both packets grow cold hardy sour cherry seedlings. Evans seed comes from one familiar cultivar background, while the mixed sour cherry packet comes from several Romance series parents.

Choose Evans seed for

One clear cultivar background

  • Seed collected from Evans or Bali cherry
  • Prairie adapted sour cherry ancestry
  • A population selected from one named source

Choose mixed sour cherry seed for

Broader Romance series diversity

  • Seed from Juliet, Valentine, Cupid, Romeo, and Crimson Passion
  • A wider mix of fruit and plant traits
  • More diversity for selection

The important seedling rule

Neither packet produces clones of the named parent. Every seedling combines genes and can differ in fruit size, flavour, ripening time, growth habit, and productivity. Grow several plants if you want to select the best individual for your garden.

Trait Evans seedlings Mixed sour cherry seedlings
Parent background Evans or Bali, Prunus cerasus Romance series, Prunus x kerrasis
Hardiness listing Zone 3 Zone 3
Variation Variable seedlings from one named source Variable seedlings from several named sources
Seed treatment About one month warm, then three to five months cold About one month warm, then three to five months cold

Current seed choices

Evans Cherry Seeds (Prunus cerasus) - Cold Hardy Cherry Tree - (Zone 3) - 12 SeedsEvans Cherry Seeds (Prunus cerasus) - Cold Hardy Cherry Tree - (Zone 3) - 12 SeedsAvailable nowSour Cherry Seeds (Prunus x kerrasis) - Cold Hardy Cherry Tree - (Zone 3) - 15 SeedsSour Cherry Seeds (Prunus x kerrasis) - Cold Hardy Cherry Tree - (Zone 3) - 15 SeedsAvailable now

Browse the fruit tree seed collection for other cold hardy Prunus seed.