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Jahns Prairie Gooseberry vs Honeywood Saskatoon (Serviceberry)
Amelanchier alnifolia Honeywood
Ribes oxyacanthoides Jahns Prairie
ONLY AVAILABLE BY CONTRACT GROW
Honeywood Saskatoon, also known as Serviceberries, is excellent at producing an abundance of blue-coloured berries in mid-summer and has dark green foliage that turns yellow in the fall. It is quite large making it a perfect shrub in your backyard garden. Often grown for its edible qualities, the Honeywood Saskatoon is quite ornamental with stunning white blooms in the spring.
Jahns Prairie Gooseberry produces large, delicious red fruit.
Found in the Red Deer River valley by Dr. Otto Jahn in 1984. This cultivar was found to resist insects and disease, tolerate frost, and produce high quality fruit.