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Amelanchier alnifolia GreatBerry Aroma - Saskatoon

Amelanchier alnifolia GreatBerry® Aroma 'Kojuaaga'
Saskatoon, Serviceberry, Juneberry, Shadbush

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A variety of fairly modest size, not exceeding 2 to 3 m in height at maturity. It forms a bush with several trunks, upright and spreading. The abundant fruits are juicy and sweet, in clusters containing up to 15 berries. This extremely hardy and bushy plant has very few requirements regarding the soil but will prefer non-calcareous and well-drained.
Flavour
Sugary
Height at maturity
2.50 m
Spread at maturity
2 m
Exposure
Sun, Partial shade
Self-fertilising
Best planting time March, October
Recommended planting time January to March, October to December
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Description

Amelanchier alnifolia GreatBerry® Aroma 'Kojuaaga' is a beautiful fruit bush originating from North America, long appreciated for its edible, tasty, and highly nutritious fruits. This relatively modest-sized variety has an erect and wide bushy habit with multiple trunks. Following its white spring flowering, it produces clusters of dark, juicy, and sweet fruits with a flavour reminiscent of blueberries, apples, almonds, and hazelnuts. They can be harvested from June to August and enjoyed fresh, dried, in jelly, jam, or in desserts and pastries. Amelanchiers are easy-going and rewarding bushes or small trees. They make excellent informal, hedgerow, or countryside hedges.

Originating from North America, from Alaska to Maine, Amelanchier alnifolia is a robust bush from the large Rosaceae family, spared by most parasites and resistant to extreme cold. In the wild, it can be found along watercourses as well as in less favourable environments, such as windy rocky slopes. It thrives in acidic, moist soil, adapting well to relatively dry and hot summers once established. To achieve a good harvest, it needs sufficiently fertile soil and watering when needed.

Its habit is bushy and branched, taller than wide. With a rather slow growth rate, the bush will reach approximately 2 to 3 m in height and 2 m in spread at maturity. Its bark is grey to brown, sometimes tinged with red. Smooth when young, becoming rougher over time. The abundant flowering occurs in April-May at the tips of bare young branches or those already adorned with very young leaves, depending on the climate. Flowering and fruiting are rapid in this amelanchier, typically around 3-4 years of age. The 2cm diameter white flowers, with 5 petals and yellow stamens, are clustered along the branchesThey are followed by edible, round fruits resembling blueberries, known as pomes. They turn almost black when ripe, in June. Their pleasantly sweet and aromatic flavour and juicy pulp make them suitable for consumption fresh or cooked, in jam or jelly. Recent analyses confirm their high content of antioxidant molecules, vitamins, and minerals. Saskatoon berries have a limited shelf life. They can be eaten fresh, frozen, dried, or preserved for later use. A single plant can yield a harvest ranging from 3 kg up to 7-8 kg of fruit depending on soil richness, but planting two plants is often recommended to optimise fruit formation.

The young spring leaves are fuzzy, becoming tougher over time. They display a lovely bluish-green hue before turning yellow in autumn before falling. Measuring up to 5 cm in length, they are entire, oval-shaped, serrated at the edges, and arranged alternately on the branches.

Amelanchier GreatBerry® Aroma is a robust, undemanding fruit bush as charming as it is resilient, deserving a place in a countryside, informal, or fruit hedge. It can also be used as a backdrop for perennial or lower shrub borders. It pairs beautifully with ornamental apple and cherry trees, deciduous euonymus, Japanese quince, spring spireas, hawthorns, medlar, prunus, and many others. Create a fruit hedge by combining it, for example, with the mayberry (Lonicera kamtschatica 'Sweet Myberry'), garden blackberries, redcurrants, blackcurrants, cranberries (Vaccinium macrocarpon), blueberry bushes, raspberry bushes, Aronia, Japanese silverberry...

The name 'Saskatoon', an anglicisation of a word from the Cree language, can be translated as 'the fruit of the tree with many branches'. This fruit gave its name to the Canadian city of Saskatoon.

 

 

Plant habit

Height at maturity 2.50 m
Spread at maturity 2 m
Growth rate slow

Fruit

Fruit colour blue
Fruit diameter 1 cm
Flavour Sugary
Use Table, Jam, Compote, Patisserie, Cooking, Alcohol
Harvest time June to August

Flowering

Flower colour white
Flowering time April to May
Inflorescence Corymb
Flower size 2 cm
Bee-friendly Attracts pollinators

Foliage

Foliage persistence Deciduous
Foliage colour green

Botanical data

Genus

Amelanchier

Species

alnifolia

Cultivar

GreatBerry® Aroma 'Kojuaaga'

Family

Rosaceae

Other common names

Saskatoon, Serviceberry, Juneberry, Shadbush

Botanical synonyms

Amelanchier alnifolia 'Honeywood'

Origin

Cultivar or hybrid

Product reference22244

Planting and care

Amelanchier GreatBerry Aroma should be planted in spring or autumn in any good, well-drained garden soil, preferably damp or slightly moist and deep, in a sunny or semi-shaded position. It prefers slightly acidic to neutral soils but can tolerate some limestone. This bush, which does not like overly arid conditions, can however withstand moderate summer drought once well established. Water regularly to help it settle in, especially during the first two dry summers. Mulch the soil to maintain some moisture, always after watering your amelanchier abundantly so that its roots do not develop only at the surface of the soil, making it more sensitive to water scarcity.

Apply well-decomposed compost at the base of your bush every spring to support fruit production.

You can prune the bush from the first year to encourage branching. Watch out for powdery mildew! Spray a sulphur-based fungicide preventively if spring is mild and very humid. Like all bushes in the rosaceae family, amelanchier can be susceptible to bacterial fire.

Planting period

Best planting time March, October
Recommended planting time January to March, October to December

Intended location

Suitable for Meadow
Type of use Border, Back of border, Hedge, Orchard
Hardiness Hardy down to -40°C (USDA zone 3) Show map
Ease of cultivation Beginner
Exposure Sun, Partial shade
Soil pH Acidic, Neutral
Soil type Clayey (heavy), Silty-loamy (rich and light), Deep, friable, well-drained.

Care

Pruning instructions Prune in the early years, in March, to promote branching. An annual light pruning of mature bushes also encourages the production of young branches that will bear fruit.
Pruning Pruning recommended once a year
Pruning time March
Soil moisture Tolerant
Disease resistance Good
Overwinter Can be left in the ground

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