Companion Planting & Garden Value: Nanking Cherry

Prunus tomentosa

Spacing: needs about 16 square feet per plant. Mature height: 8-12 ft.

Pollination

Not self-fertile: a single plant won't reliably set fruit. Needs two or more plants nearby for cross-pollination; a single bush won't fruit. No named cultivars are sold, so any two seedlings will do. (source)

Plant these nearby

No well-established companions.

Keep these apart

Nothing it needs to be kept away from.

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Companion planting for Nanking Cherry: which plants to grow next to it, which to keep apart, and the reason behind each pairing.

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