10/23/2026
Want an instant tree without the cost, and trauma, of balled-and-burlapped? 🍃
Meet Fire Cherry (Pin Cherry), the “insta-tree.” It grows 2+ feet a year and can produce fruit after just two years. So you get shade, flowers and fruit in just a few years.
What you get:
🍒 Bright-red cherries for homemade jams, pies and sauces (sour off the tree, but edible!)
🌸 White spring flowers
🍂 Brilliant fall leaves
🌴 Lovely, peeling, reddish bark
What your wildlife gets:
🦋 A Keystone Plant hosting hundreds of caterpillar species, including Spring Azure and Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
🪺🐤 Fruit songbirds relish (It’s also called Bird Cherry!)
Fire Cherry, Prunus pensylvanica, is short lived but packs a lot in in the time it has, feeding wildlife and adding shade and preparing soil for the longer-lived trees trailing not too far behind.
⚠️ Only the fruit is edible.
Why Fire Cherry? It’s among the first to sprout after a fire 🔥
Fire Cherry grows 30-50 feet tall and best in sun and sandy, well-drained soil. It can handle poor and dry soil.
Only one tree is needed for fruit, but two@or@more is better.
Fire Cherry produces tons of fruit!!
For more on Fire Cherry, visit our Website and pop Fire Cherry into the search bar.
OR: Stop in! We’d love to show you around!
163 Vaughan Hill Road, Rochester, Mass.
