CherryPedia

History of the Cherry

The cherry has a long and noble history...

Forgotten Fruits
The Cherry Under Threat

Since their heyday, the English cherry’s fortunes have seriously declined...

Growing Your Own

If you want to grow your own cherry tree...

Top of the Crops

FoodLovers Britain's Top traditional cherries...
 

Fun Cherry Facts

From fertility to lipsticks...

Cherries in the Arts

From A.E. Housman to Brandon Rai, age 8...

Cherries in the Arts

Cherry blossom


A.E. Housman’s ‘Loveliest of Trees...’

‘Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide

‘Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.

‘And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow’

 

Cherry poem

Cherry Orchard, April by Katherine May
From Cherry Orchard Poems, Cliffe Community & Conservation Partnership, Northward Hill

 

Cherry orchards

In the Cherry Orchard by Brandon Rai, age 8
From Cherry Orchard Poems, Cliffe Community & Conservation Partnership, Northward Hill

 

Cherry poems

Cherry Orchard Revisited by Alison Gollay
From Cherry Orchard Poems, Cliffe Community & Conservation Partnership, Northward Hill

 

cherry poetry

Cherry Tasting by Carol Donaldson
From Cherry Orchard Poems, Cliffe Community & Conservation Partnership, Northward Hill

 

Northward Hill

The Cherry Orchard - Northward Hill by Alison J Gollay
From Cherry Orchard Poems, Cliffe Community & Conservation Partnership, Northward Hill