Pollinator gardens and backyard seating areas light up with these airy trees! You'll love these ornamental flowering fall color trees for your edible landscape! Set off spring and fall with the beautiful colors these shrubby trees provide! Anchor your home's foundation or shade a small section of your garden with dappled shade. It would look terrific as a shrub border or planted in front of a dark backdrop to highlight the Serviceberry's colors. Once processed, you can make incredible preserves, syrup and juice! Keep whole and bake the berries in shortbread, muffins, or other baked goods. It's best to cook these berries and juice them, discarding the small seeds. Some say the flavor has a slightly nutty taste. They look similar to blueberries, and taste just as good. Butterflies and early emerging bees fully appreciate and take advantage of the nectar and pollen resource, providing a meal for them and encouragement to stay and pollinate your other plants!Īfter the flowers of your Regent Serviceberry have faded, small green berries will appear, eventually turning a dark blue in June when they're ready to eat, giving them the other common name June Berry. These fragrant little blooms grow in clusters before the leaves appear, and are so numerous that they are sure to have a dazzling effect upon the appearance of your spring yard. This Serviceberry cultivar tends to flower early in the spring with ¾ inch, 5-petaled white flowers. This gently mounded deciduous form can be trained as a multi-branched tree-form, is hardy and tolerant of many conditions! The green foliage turns shades of yellow and burgundy in the fall, for an added bonus in addition to the plant's other stellar features. The Regent Saskatoon Serviceberry (Amelanchier alnifolia 'Regent') is an early-flowering, ornamental shrub.
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