It gets plenty cold here to provide the winter freeze needed by cherries. That’s not the problem. I think it’s the soil. Wild cherries do fine. Pie cherries just die.
Stark Bros. Nursery is 50 miles or so from here. I bet they have cherry trees that will live here.
Huh. I’m stumped, then.
I made the mistake of planting a Montmorency Cherry back when cherry juice was going to cure whatever ailed us.
That thing grew to 20’ tall, and I was never able to pick the darn thing because the bottom branches were a good 12’ off the ground...and I’m 5-foot NOTHING, LOL!
Now, I only plant Dwarf varieties of fruit trees. ;)
Some trees do poorly and die if they can’t establish a relationship with the fungi and other life in the soil. Maybe a bit of mycorrhizal innoculant would help?