Large mildly sweet berries with high sugar-to-acid ratio. Fast growing and high yielding, this was once the most popular cultivar in commercial orchards in Canada before it got displaced by Northline, which has larger berries. Still a winner in our book. Suckers, but not aggressively. Z3. NEW! (1–3' shrubs)
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Smokey
Additional Information
Saskatoons Amelanchier spp.
Also called Juneberry, Parsonberry, Serviceberry, Shadblow, Shadbush and Shad. Purplish-black sweet berries great for pies, cobblers, jellies, jams, smoothies and cakes. Berries are about the size of a lowbush blueberry, or a bit larger, and seedier. Fruit ripens in mid-July in central Maine.
We’ve always admired our native Amelanchiers in the wilds of Maine where they grow along stream edges and rocky slopes. Beautiful fragrant 5-petaled white flowers are early harbingers of spring in Maine. Nice red-orange fall foliage. Recently we’re learning more about saskatoons farmed commercially for fruit in Canada, much like how we grow highbush blueberries. In Canada there are saskatoon festivals, and even a baseball team called the Saskatoon Berries!
Growing Saskatoons
Soil: Moist well-drained soil; will tolerate clay.
Sun: Full.
Pollination: Self-fruitful, but plant more than one variety for better yields.
