[gillie]

I understood that the Morello was really a cooking cherry?

Yes, but we find it much more useful than a sweet cherry as it freezes excellently and can be used in pies, sauces etc.  When very ripe you can them raw and they have a very rich though still slightly tart flavour.

At our previous house we had a large one fan trained on a North wall.  It was spectacular in blossom but when the fruit started to ripen we had to net it very carefully and still lost a few cherries where they were close enough to the net for birds to reach through the net.

Gillie

[BADBACK]

MORNING ALL
i,ve got a stella cherry in the lottie
and the birds will not come within
20 foot of it
all you have to do is hang rubber snakes
from the branches.not even my tame fantails
are brave enough to have a try

[plum crumble]

MORNING ALL
i,ve got a stella cherry in the lottie
and the birds will not come within
20 foot of it
all you have to do is hang rubber snakes
from the branches.not even my tame fantails
are brave enough to have a try

PLEASE can we have a piccie? 

[scabs]

That's brilliant! 

[BADBACK]

HI YA PLUM
if i took a piccie i would have no idea how to post it 
not right good on these computer things
re   snakes in trees got the idea from italy
they use reall snakes in demijons   DONT agree with that

[GilbertJessop]

If you want something really unusual what about a Mazzard (an edible Wild Cherry)? Kevin Croucher at Thornhayes Nursery has them on very dwarfing rootstock, which would do you nicely.

[Squibbs]

I have a 2m cherry tree that was already present when I bought the house 2 1/2 years ago. I know its a cherry as last year it had one pair of cherries on it (none the year before) the birds ate the cherries before I did.

Any tips for a more fruitful season. I could cover it with some netting or get a plastic snake, but I will still feel a bit hard done by if I only get to eat 2 cherries

Thanks

[Tattyanne456]

I love the idea of hanging snakes (rubber ones) in the tree . What a fabulous tip! Thats why I love this site. Right next stop Ebay.... Tatty