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Black Boy Cherry
Prunus avium ‘Black Boy’
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
The price you see is the whole job: the plant supplied, delivered free and professionally installed. Done for you.
Supplied in 400mmtypically 1.5 to 2.5m tall on delivery
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Sizes shown are the sizes we currently source in this species. If you need larger specimens, project quantities or a size not listed, our sourcing team can look for it through our national supplier network. We confirm your exact stock with you on the booking call before anything ships.
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After checkout, our team contacts you to confirm site access and book a day that suits. Most orders are delivered and planted within 2 to 4 weeks of your booking call. Nothing else for you to organise.
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Black Boy Cherry - Prunus avium ‘Black Boy’
‘Black Boy’ is one of the old dark-fruited sweet cherries long grown in southern Australian orchards, producing near-black, deep red fleshed fruit in the mid to late part of the season. As a tree, Prunus avium is upright and vigorous with glossy serrated leaves, peeling banded bark and a heavy load of white blossom in early spring. Cherries demand real winter chill and genuinely free draining soil, and given both they become long-lived, handsome garden trees rather than short-term crops.
Why Black Boy Cherry
Fruit Colour: Very dark, almost black skin over deep red flesh, sweet and rich rather than delicate.
Season: Mid to late in the cherry window, extending harvest past the earlier varieties.
Spring Blossom: Clouds of white flowers before leaf out make it a genuinely ornamental tree.
Bark Interest: Glossy, banded, horizontally marked bark that peels in strips as the trunk thickens.
Tree Longevity: Well sited sweet cherries crop for decades and grow into substantial garden trees.
Ideal Applications
Cool climate home orchard: Suited to Tasmania, Victoria, the New South Wales tablelands, the Adelaide Hills and similar chill districts.
Ornamental fruit tree: Planted where the blossom is visible, it earns its keep before the fruit arrives.
Orchard row with a pollinator: Grown beside a compatible sweet cherry to guarantee fruit set.
Netted fruit cage or espalier: Trained flat or kept low so the crop can be netted against birds.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 3 to 4m in a close orchard row
Spacing (feature/avenue): 5 to 7m
Best Planting Season: Winter, while fully dormant
Soil & Drainage: Deep, fertile, sharply drained loam, cherries fail quickly in heavy or waterlogged soil, neutral to slightly acid pH suits
Establishment Care: Water deeply and consistently through the first two summers, but avoid heavy irrigation close to harvest since a sudden drink splits ripening fruit. Mulch widely, prune only in dry late summer weather to reduce bacterial canker, and plan for bird netting before the first real crop.
Plant Details
Height: 4 to 6m, more on vigorous rootstock and less if pruned open
Width: 4 to 5m
Growth Rate: Moderate to fast
Foliage: Deciduous
Light: Full sun
Native to: A cultivar of a species from Europe and western Asia
Flower Colour: White
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







