Double Delight Raspberry vs Thimbleberry - TreeTime.ca

Double Delight Raspberry vs Thimbleberry

Rubus x Double Delight

Rubus parviflorus

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Double Delight Raspberry
Thimbleberry

Double Delight raspberries have an excellent sweet-sour flavor. They freeze well and are suitable for use in jams, juices, and pies.

The Double Delight Raspberry is a primocane-fruiting variety, meaning that it produces fruit on first years' growth. Prune stalks down each winter or early spring to get higher fruit yields and easier harvesting.

Thimbleberry is an ornamental shrub with large, green maple-like-leaves. Flowers are attractive, fragrant, and turn into red-raspberry-like berries. The berries are good for jams, cakes, breads, muffins etc. If you remove the berry, the core resembles a thimble, giving this shrub its namesake.

Double Delight Raspberry Quick Facts

Thimbleberry Quick Facts

Zone: 3a
Zone: 4a
Height: 1.5 m (5 ft)
Height: 1.5 m (5 ft)
Spread: 1.5 m (5 ft)
Spread: 1.5 m (5 ft)
Moisture: normal, wet
Moisture: any
Light: full sun
Light: partial shade, full sun
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no
Fall colour: gold
Berries: large, red
Berries: edible, red, similar to raspberries
Harvest: August-September
Flowers: white, showy
Growth rate: fast
Growth rate: fast
Life span: short
Life span: medium
Maintenance: high
Suckering: high
Suckering: none




Other Names: thimbleberry, western thimbleberry