Redwing Highbush Cranberry vs Heritage Raspberry - TreeTime.ca

Redwing Highbush Cranberry vs Heritage Raspberry

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Redwing Highbush Cranberry
Heritage Raspberry

The Redwing Highbush Cranberry is a dense multi-stemmed shrub that blooms with white pinwheel shaped flowers in spring. It produces small, red, and edible berries in late summer. Its leaves are green, but the tips become more saturated with red throughout the season, and then turn a stunning crimson colour in the fall.

The Redwing Highbush Cranberry makes a good addition to any urban garden or hedge, and its berries are commonly used to liven up preserves with their tart flavor.

The Heritage Raspberry is a deciduous thorny shrub that produces two crops in the year: a moderate one in early summer followed by a heavier harvest in the fall. This plant blooms with white, rose-like flowers and fruits with extra-sweet, dark red berries that are great for fresh eating, canning or freezing.

The Heritage 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.

Redwing Highbush Cranberry Quick Facts

Heritage Raspberry Quick Facts

Zone: 2a
Zone: 4a
Height: 3 m (10 ft)
Height: 1.5 m (5 ft)
Spread: 2.1 m (7 ft)
Spread: 1.2 m (4 ft)
Light: partial shade, full sun
Light: partial shade, full sun
Moisture: normal, wet
Moisture: dry, normal
Growth rate: fast
Growth rate: fast
Life span: medium
Life span: short
Suckering: low
Suckering: medium
Maintenance: medium


Foliage: red tips on leaves
Fall colour: red/orange
Flowers: white, pinwheel shaped
Berries: small, red
Berries: red
Fruit size: large
Flavor: sour
Flavor: extra-sweet
Harvest: late August-February
Harvest: June-July, September to October
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no