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Nursery Direct
Stella Cherry
Prunus avium ‘Stella’
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.
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Request photosHow tall it arrives: 400mm about 1.5 to 2.5m, 200L about 3 to 4.5m. Heights vary with species and season. How pot sizes work
Getting it in: the largest size here needs about 1.2m of clear, level access. Measure the narrowest point on the route and tell us on the booking call. Standard access is included in the price, and anything unusual is quoted and agreed with you before work begins. What happens on installation day
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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.
Stella Cherry - Prunus avium ‘Stella’
‘Stella’ changed backyard cherry growing because it is self-fertile, so a single tree crops on its own without a matched pollinator taking up a second space in the garden. The fruit is large, dark red and heart-shaped, ripening mid to late season, and the tree itself is a vigorous, upright Prunus avium with the glossy banded bark and heavy white blossom typical of sweet cherries. Give it winter chill and drainage and it is the most practical cherry for a single-tree household.
Why Stella
Self Fertility: It sets a full crop without a second variety, which no traditional sweet cherry will do.
Fruit Size: Large, glossy, dark red heart-shaped cherries with firm sweet flesh.
Pollinator Role: Because it is self-fertile it also pollinates most other sweet cherry varieties nearby.
Blossom Display: A dense flush of white flowers on bare wood in early spring.
Cropping Reliability: Consistent, well distributed crops rather than a heavy year followed by nothing.
Ideal Applications
Single-tree home orchard: The obvious choice where there is only room for one cherry.
Pollinator in a mixed orchard row: Planted among other sweet cherries to lift fruit set across the row.
Espalier on a fence: Trained flat it takes minimal depth and makes netting straightforward.
Ornamental blossom tree: Positioned in a lawn or front garden for the spring flowering as much as the fruit.
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, free draining loam is essential, no waterlogging at any time of year, neutral to slightly acid
Establishment Care: Keep water up through the first two summers to build the framework, then ease off as fruit begins to colour so the cherries do not split. Mulch to the drip line, prune in dry late summer rather than winter, and net the tree before the fruit turns.
Plant Details
Height: 4 to 6m, less on dwarfing rootstock or with open-vase pruning
Width: 3 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.







