Lapins Cherry Tree - 4-5 ft.

If you want to grow the most cherries per tree for a bountiful harvest, you canâ€â„t make a better choice than planting Lapins Cherry. (Prunus avium ‘Lapinsâ€â„) The cherries are not only borne in profusion, but they may be the sweetest cherries youâ€â„ve ever tasted!Award-Winning TasteSome cherries that are classified as “sweet†donâ€â„t really taste all that sweet. Although “sweet†is a subjective description thatâ€â„s based on personal preference, nobody who bites into a Lapins Cherry would doubt its true sweetness. Lapins Cherry was overwhelmingly preferred over Bing Cherry, which had been the market industry leader for sweet cherries. In another evaluation, Lapins Cherryâ€â„s flavor sweetness profile was shown to include almost 20 percent sugar – now thatâ€â„s a sweet cherry!Beyond the TasteTaste is probably your biggest consideration for buying a cherry tree, but youâ€â„ll also enjoy this treeâ€â„s other characteristics:â€ÂFertile. If you want to harvest fruit from many other types of cherry trees, youâ€â„ll have to plant two trees so the flowers can be cross-pollinated. But “self-fertile†trees, such as Lapins Cherry, are different. Only one tree will bear fruit without needing the pollen from another tree to fertilize its flowers.â€ÂHeavy yields. Superior taste is good, but if sweet-tasting cherries were only produced in few numbers on a tree, youâ€â„d be disappointed. You can put aside your disappointment, because Lapins Cherry trees bear fruit in big clusters, which cover the trees, and each large cherry is typically 1 inch in diameter.