Jahns Prairie Gooseberry vs Meadowsweet - TreeTime.ca

Jahns Prairie Gooseberry vs Meadowsweet

Ribes oxyacanthoides Jahns Prairie

Filipendula ulmaria

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Jahns Prairie Gooseberry
Meadowsweet

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.

Meadowsweet gets its name from its sweet fragrance from the creamy white flowers. It is a large upright herbaceous perennial shrub. They bloom in early summer, and with the right conditions may remain throughout the season.

Take care of where you’re planting Meadowsweet as it is known to spread.

Jahns Prairie Gooseberry Quick Facts

Meadowsweet Quick Facts

Zone: 3a
Zone: 3a
Height: 1.5 m (5 ft)
Height: 1.2 m (4 ft)
Spread: 0.9 m (3 ft)
Spread: 0.3 m (1.0 ft)
Light: full sun
Light: partial shade, full sun
Moisture: normal, wet
Moisture: normal, wet
Growth rate: fast
Growth rate: fast
Life span: short
Life span: short
Suckering: none
Suckering: low


Fall colour: yellow
Flowers: white
Berries: red-pink berries
Harvest: mid to late July
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no


Other Names: bride wort, mead wort