Your not only having success they look like you can barely hold them back. I’m very happy they are getting the recognition they deserve. You did a fantastic job growing those. I was interested in them for years prior to them being imported into the United States from Canada where they were grown in a home by a genteman who worked for the goverment but not at the University of Saskatchewan. The university cherry program was pretty much terminated. DNA gardens Unique Zone 2 Hardy fruit trees like Treasured Red, Black Currant Plants | Elnora, AB and others grew them from tissue culturing and eventually they became very popular in Canada. Evans a seedling rumored to be of montmorency was very popular in Canada in those days named after Dr. Evans its founder Evans Cherry - Wikipedia. Evans is still popular to this day. Dr meader was also working on developing bush cherries in the usa around the same time carmine jewell was released. Later i began growing joel as well.
Jan, Joel, Joy Dr. Meader cherries. It took me a long time to get the meader cherries as they were frequently sold out. They are much smaller bushes. I even looked at getting an importer liscense to order some carmine jewell but the cost was pretty high for cherry bushes. They introduced the romance series cherries soon after carmine jewell. The north star cherry which i grow is a parent in the breeding project. The university was going to scrap the cherry project but then there was a discovery. Les Kerr was working in private since the 1940s to improve the quality of sour cherries BBC - Travel - The secret cherry taking over Canada. “As a lone grower, he was doing work no-one else thought could be done.” He was a goverment employee near his death that revealed the plants he grew at home and then the university continued to work with them. I was ecstatic when gurneys paid the import fees and offered the bushes. I bought them as soon as they were available for sale in this country. Some friends who were having problems growing cherries in this area are now consistently getting heavy yields. They are very resistant to common cherry diseases. We are very fortunate to have bushes like these available to us. Glad you and @zendog are spreading the word everyone needs these in their back yard! Apparently honeyberryusa came into this picture as well like gurneys offerring carmine jewell. Who knows maybe they even imported them first but whats important they are here now. We ordered canadian cherry plants from both nurseries through the years. Are they all identical plants? No they are not i had a carmine jewell that bloomed later than all the others suggesting they were not all genetically the same plant at first. They are i believe the same more or less now. The carmine jewell i grew that was different did not grow as fast and remained shorter in the row. All the others were exactly the same plant. Carmine jewell and all the romance series cherries are Prunus cerasus aka north star x Prunus fruiticosa aka Mongolian cherry Canadian Dwarf Sour Cherries – Prunus x kerrasis — Carrington REC . Carmine jewell was the first in 1999 to be released Sour Cherries - University of Saskatchewan Fruit Program - University of Saskatchewan
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