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Serviceberries

These very winter hardy plants, also known as Saskatoons, make attractive ornamental shrubs or hedges and produce delicious edible fruit. Developed in Alberta and grown commercially in Canada, this tasty blueberry-like fruit is high in Vitamin C and great for eating fresh or making pies. Plants are pretty in all seasons, with attractive white flowers in spring and bright yellow foliage in fall. Train them as single stemmed trees or let them sucker and become multi-stemmed bushes or edible hedges. Plants tolerate a variety of soils, but prefer a neutral or slightly acid pH. They are self fertile and long-lived. USDA Zones 3-9. We offer healthy, well-rooted bushes.

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Salal-4 Inch Pot
Catalog Number: G340
(Gaultheria shallon) Salal was used widely by all of the Pacific NW coastal Indians as a staple in their diet. It was eaten both dried in cakes and fresh from the bush. Fully ripe salal berries from robust healthy bushes are flavorful and juicy. If planted in the sun, the beautiful, upright, leathery leaved bush will grow only about 2 feet tall. In the shade it can reach 5-10 feet. Berries are the size of blueberries and are blue-black in color. Space plants 2 feet apart in full sun, 4 feet in shade. 4 inch pot.
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