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Our Favorite Backyard Berries

Get your garden ready for our favorite backyard berries! These edible plants will not only have your garden looking tip top, they'll make your taste buds mighty happy.

Our Favorite Backyard Berries

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Get your garden ready for our favorite backyard berries! These edible plants will not only have your garden looking tip-top, they’ll make your taste buds mighty happy.

Raspberry Shortcake. A dwarf, thorn-less red raspberry with a rounded compact growth habit perfect for large patio containers. These carefree raspberry plants are perfect for children with no thorns to get in the way. They’ll love harvesting healthful fruit right from your patio! You’ll appreciate that there is no trellising or staking necessary like the raspberries you’ve seen before, and the compact shape means no big garden spaces are required. Raspberry Shortcake plants produce full-size, nutritious and super sweet raspberries mid-summer.

Strawberry Éclair. This new gourmet strawberry boasts a unique taste with a hint of citrus and raspberry flavor to it. Strawberry Éclair is a Junebearing variety, so expect the majority of harvest in the early summer. This berry is developed from Junebearing and Everbearing relatives, so it often produces fruits longer into the season that traditional Junebearing strawberries. Allow berries to mature before picking to enjoy maximum flavor and sweetness. Enjoy these sweet treats in pies, tarts, jams and preserves… or freshly picked!

Sunshine Blue Blueberries. This semi-dwarf, versatile evergreen blueberry features showy hot-pink flowers that fade to white in spring, yielding large crops of delicious berries. Enjoy it’s blue-green foliage and showy pink to white flowers provide ornamental value, followed by an abundant crop of fruit. Yielding medium, rich sweet flavored berries this blueberry is self – pollinizing, but yields best when planted with another variety.

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