Grow your own sweet cold-hardy cherries with this White Nanking Cherry rooted plant, a productive fruiting shrub prized for its abundant white fruit, fragrant spring blooms, and exceptional adaptability in colder climates. These hardy bushes produce clusters of deep pink flower buds that open into beautiful white blossoms before developing sweet low-acid cherries perfect for fresh eating, juice, preserves, freezing, baking, and homestead gardens.

Compact and fast growing, White Nanking Cherry bushes make excellent edible hedges, wildlife plantings, windbreaks, and backyard orchard additions. These naturally grown pesticide-free plants are easy to establish and begin producing fruit within just a few seasons.

You will receive:
✔️ 1 rooted White Nanking Cherry plant
✔️ Healthy live fruiting shrub starter
✔️ Cold hardy edible cherry variety
✔️ Naturally grown pesticide-free plant
✔️ Secure bare root shipping packaging

Growing Information

• Common Name: White Nanking Cherry
• Botanical Name: Prunus tomentosa
• Plant Type: Fruiting deciduous shrub
• Growth Stage: Rooted starter plant
• Sun Requirements: Full sun
• Soil: Well-draining average garden soil
• Watering: Moderate during establishment
• Mature Height: Approximately 4–8 feet
• Growth Habit: Dense spreading shrub
• Fruit Flavor: Sweet, low acid white cherries
• Bloom Color: White flowers from deep pink buds
• Fruit Season: Mid to late summer
• Pollination: Not self-pollinating; requires another compatible variety
• Chill Hours Required: Approximately 1,000 hours below 45°F
• USDA Zones: 2–7
• Special Features: Cold hardy, wildlife friendly, edible landscape plant

Care Tip

Plant two compatible Nanking Cherry varieties nearby for best fruit production. Mulching and regular watering during the first growing season help young plants establish quickly and develop stronger root systems.

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.