Jahns Prairie Gooseberry vs Honeywood Saskatoon (Serviceberry) - TreeTime.ca

Jahns Prairie Gooseberry vs Honeywood Saskatoon (Serviceberry)

Amelanchier alnifolia Honeywood

Ribes oxyacanthoides Jahns Prairie

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Honeywood Saskatoon (Serviceberry)
Jahns Prairie Gooseberry

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.

Honeywood Saskatoon (Serviceberry) Quick Facts

Jahns Prairie Gooseberry Quick Facts

Zone: 2a
Zone: 3a
Height: 5 m (15 ft)
Height: 1.5 m (5 ft)
Spread: 3 m (10 ft)
Spread: 0.9 m (3 ft)
Light: partial shade, full sun
Light: full sun
Moisture: normal
Moisture: normal, wet
Growth rate: fast
Growth rate: fast
Life span: medium
Life span: short
Suckering: low
Suckering: none
Maintenance: medium


Fall colour: yellow
Berries: produces large edible berries
Berries: red-pink berries
Harvest: mid to late July
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no


Native to: AB, BC, SK, MB, ON, YT, NT
Other Names: honeywood juneberry, honeywood service berry