Description
Size (HxW): 5’ x 5’
Growth Habit: Upright, Rounded
Fruit Size: 1.5cm
Planting Location: Sheltered
Zone 2b
- Fruit is sweet with a tangy flavour
- Dwarf saskatoon, great for smaller yards and tighter spaces
- Berries are purple with a blue hue
- Reduced number of seeds in berries
- Saskatoons are good for fresh eating, baking & preserves
- Fruit ripens in mid-July; stores for 2 weeks in refrigerator
- Produces fruit within 3-4 years after planting
- Self-fertile; will produce more fruit with a different saskatoon to pollinate
- Plant pollinators within 200’ or less, closer is better
- Clusters of small, five-petaled, white flowers in spring
- Round, green-blue foliage turns orange-red in fall
- Native to the prairies
- Row Spacing: 4-5’ apart
