Re: serviceberry
- Subject: Re: [SG] serviceberry
- From: B* D*
- Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 09:45:12 -0500
I'm guessing that arborea and laevis might be more treelike in form, and
Dirr says they have better tasting berries. I have canadensis, and can
attest that the berries are pretty blah (the birds like them), but I love
the way it looks. It is sort of a shrubby tree, very attractive to me. I
planted three last year and liked them so much that this year I bought two
more. There has been no suckering. (Speaking of which, crabapples drive me
mad with their suckering. I would never plant a flowering crab.)
The fourth type, Xgrandis, is a bit of a conundrum. People don't
seem to agree on what it actually is like. One expert says that nurseries
often mislabel canadensis as Xgrandis.
Bobbi Diehl
Bloomington, IN
zone 5/6
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Lynn Barbee wrote:
> Serviceberry might be just the thing to replace my crabapple that I had such
> high hopes for. Michael Dirr lists four different species, not all easily
> available. Is there one which is more inclined to stay a tree form? Lynn,
> who enjoys this list, even though she doesn't alway join in :+)
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