The berries are really tasty a bit like a sweet blueberry. Mind getting to eat them is a problem as the birds usually devour them first. We were lucky last summer as picked quite a few to eat.
A friend had one in an alkaline garden but I wouldn't call hers dry - near the Broads. There's a fabulous one in Reydon just inland from Southwold, fairly free-draining there.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Amelanchier (aka Snowy mesipilus/ Service tree)
We're going to get one for our garden.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you Dove...now I can give it a name other than 'the tree with the white blossom'
Good for wildlife too Fishy, with berries for the birds. You can try them too - they're edible, but I've never tasted one.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Oh yes the bees love the blossom. I think I'll leave the berries for the birds though Dove
The berries are really tasty a bit like a sweet blueberry. Mind getting to eat them is a problem as the birds usually devour them first. We were lucky last summer as picked quite a few to eat.
I've never yet seen a berry on mine in 30 years, but I knew it had them, as it was a present from a bird
yes, I want to get one of those too
Are they happy on dry alkaline soil? I fancy one of those but I've seen the looking yellow and depressed in some gardens
In the sticks near Peterborough
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's on the list
Plant Fair on Sunday
In the sticks near Peterborough