Unique Features: The Stella cherry is one of the few self-fertile sweet cherry trees. It was developed in British Columbia and introduced in 1968, and has become quite popular in Great Britain. Most other sweet cherries need a different type of sweet cherry that blooms at the same time nearby in order to get fruit. A single Stella can produce a good crop of large dark red, heart shaped sweet cherries. The fruit is split resistant and ripens in mid-July to early August. The Stella cherry can also serve as cross a pollinator for other sweet cherries and it is one of the parents of the Lapin cherry, another variety of self-fertile sweet cherry. As with all cherries, sweet or sour, the birds love them (take note of the botanical name) so bird netting for your Stella cherry tree is highly recommended.