Another cherry tree question.

love.a.bargain, Jan 20, 8:10am
Are they meant to have cherries!

love.a.bargain, Jan 20, 8:10am
p.s. You can tell I'm a beginner gardener.

lythande1, Jan 20, 8:16am
There are 2 types, flowering cherries which are just decorative and actual fruiting cherries.
Depends which sort you have.

kateley, Jan 20, 8:47am
flowering cherries do have small cherries, not much bigger than the pip.Birds love them - that's why you get so many cherry seedlings

love.a.bargain, Jan 20, 11:45am
I must have the flowering variety then - thanks!

ngacooky, Jan 20, 8:00pm
silly question - but are the small cherries eatable!

kateley, Feb 1, 6:04am
birds (and my silly dog) eat them, so I suppose they must have some flavour, but they're not worth the effort, only about 1mm of flesh around the pip