Thank you Chills! No, that's not the Stella branch. >>Konrad, to do that in your climate...You are truly a marvelYou really have to give this credit to our cold winters. Giuseppe, try to contact someone in the US, it's illegal to ship live plant material across. .... .... Not sure why nurseries have to lie.. I have e- mailed a nursery in the US about the false statement in their website saying: Bali was know in Canada as the Evans Cherry They where nice enough to fix it next day to: is know in Canada as Evans... Also they where saying.. > That probably wasn't the biggest lie on our website. Let me know if > you find others I also asked about the Evans they sell, grafted or on their own root? Reply: Where the heck do you get them on their own root??? We are also Zone 3, and our Bali, which we get from Bailey Nurseries in St. Paul, are grafted onto Mazzard Cherry rootstock, which is commonly listed as Zone 5. It is telling, I think, that I've never seen or heard of a plain old Mazzard Cherry growing as a tree in this area. And indeed I've heard reports of them dying over winter. I told them that I bought about a 100 trees 15 years ago from DNA. And that I would plant the grafted ones below the graft for zone 3, they thought it was a good idea. Konrad

LOL Bruce, I guess you're right. Glenn,...you bet! Not so much out in the country here but som trees are like this, sheltered in town it's a common thing. I would think a perfect cherry for a sheltered zone 3, zone 4 should be just ideal, zone 5 and up might get a bit warm but I think you should still have cherries, not sure if loaded like this. You can also experiment with other root stock, this picture is Evans on pin cherry, nicely loaded, flowered a little later, the cherries are still on but deer have eaten most on the bottom branches, I put on a trail camera,...they might be back, if so, I'll post later. The cherries are slightly smaller but I find sweeter. Picture from July 2, Evans on pin cherry.

Northwoods: Bailey Nursery in St .Paul MN does Evans. Where I work, we got some Evans in from them in the past. They appear to be budded not own root. I have heard reports of Evans on its own root to have suckering issues. I will presume budding onto another rootstock may greatly reduce that issue. Ditto for 'Sweet Cherry Pie'. Originally my experience with this variety over 20 years ago was that it suckers profusely and true to variety. Bailey now grows it budded. Of course I have also heard that Evans own root is a good zone winter hardier that those that are budded. I believe this is why Evans in Canada is usually sold on its own roots.

Thanks for the reply Frank but unfortunately customs can be very difficult with plants unless all the necessary documents have been filled out (phyto sanitary certificate).It can be such a hassle that most nurseries will not ship cross border, no matter how much you plead with them and tell them that the variety isn't available nor will it ever be available to us canuks here in Canada and you will reimburse them for their trouble. They just simply say sorry not worth it. I only ever found 2 company's in the US that would ship to Canada and things went smooth across the border , it was just quite costly to get them inspected and documentation. If memory serves me correctly it was $70.00 US at the time.