Credit: Peter Krumhardt. Save Pin FB More. Blooms, Berries, and Foliage Serviceberry trees display white blooms just before their foliage emerges in early spring, offering some of the earliest sources of nectar for pollinators.
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The 2- to 4-inch long, showy, white flowers typically appear from mid-March until early April, and are borne in pendulous racemes.
As mentioned before, the flowers are extremely ornamental, but the bloom period is short in duration perhaps a week. The deciduous foliage is elliptical in shape, of medium texture, and has a medium to dark green color. The edible fruit matures in two to three months to small, sweet, blue-black berries that are relished by wildlife. The fall color is excellent with varying shades of yellow to orange to dusty red. Another feature worth mentioning is the showy bark that is smooth and grayish in color with vertical ridges.
The young twigs are an attractive olive-green color. Serviceberry is often seen as a multi-stemmed shrub, but it also looks great pruned into a small tree to accentuate the ornamental bark. Serviceberry has a number of applications in the landscape. These include using as a screening plant, blending into shrub borders, group plantings, specimen plantings, and used in naturalized settings such as woodland edges.
Serviceberry also provides a food source for wildlife. Serviceberry requires full sun to partial shade, with flower and fruit production improving with increased sunlight exposure. It transplants readily from field-grown balled and burlapped plants as well as from containers. It prefers moist, well-drained soils with a pH range between 5. It is also useful in situations with occasionally wet, but well-drained soils.
This plant is noted for being somewhat drought tolerant once well established, but would not be recommended for planting under high stress conditions. Another advantage is that they rarely require pruning to maintain their form, thus decreasing required maintenance.
As serviceberry is in the rose family Rosaceae , it is susceptible to many of the same disease and insect pest problems seen in other species within the family e.
Entomosporium leaf spot Entomosporium sp. Other minor diseases include powdery mildew and fire blight. Proper selection of resistant cultivars and good cultural practices can often prevent these problems from becoming serious.
Japanese beetles, spider mites, aphids, leaf miners, several borers, pear slug sawfly and scale can sometimes become pests of serviceberry, but incidences of these pests are low in landscape plantings.
Good cultural practices of fertilization and watering as needed will help prevent many of the insect pests associated with serviceberry. Amelanchier laevis in fall color. Richard Webb, Self-employed horticulturist, www. Amelanchier laevis Alleghany Serviceberry : This species is most closely related to A.
Its showy white flowers occur from late March through mid-April. The fruit is sweet, juicy and purple-black. The new leaves are very wooly, but become hairless when mature, and turn gold in the fall. The juicy blue-black fruits. Ornamental plantings are usually pruned up to form a small tree in order to show the striped, silver-gray bark. This species is hardy to zone 3. Apple serviceberry A. It has the largest flowers of all serviceberries, and some types have pink flowers. It does not grow as tall as some of the other types and does particularly well in shade.
There are a number of cultivars of apple serviceberry. It is hardy in zones Smooth or Alleghany serviceberry A. The nodding or drooping white flower clusters bloom as the leaves unfold in late spring. The slightly downy, bronzy purple new leaves turn dark green in summer and turn yellow-orange to red early in the fall. The blue-black fruits are very sweet and juicy, and are a favorite of birds and other animals.
The smooth, striped bark is a dull gray, while the slender stems are a reddish brown. This species is often pruned up to form small tree but it does tend to sucker , and does best in full sun in wet sites. Serviceberry in full bloom.
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