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[Sarah Kehler Ewing <skkewing@yahoo.com>]

I'm wondering if you are referring to the variety "Autumn Brilliance"??? I 
have a pair of them on my farm and I'd have to say they have done the poorest 
of my 8 or so kinds (not very hardy and no production).  On the hardiness, I 
found out later that the tag with the plants may have highly over-rated their 
zone hardiness...

Sarah 
zone 3
Edmonton, AB


--- On Sun, 3/6/11, Alan Haigh <alandhaigh@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Alan Haigh <alandhaigh@gmail.com>
> Subject: [NAFEX] serviceberries
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Received: Sunday, March 6, 2011, 8:30 PM
> I tried several of the Canadian
> selected seviceberry varieties including
> Smokey (the only name I remember now).  I never
> harvested any fruit from
> them, although plum curculio did, and they grew poorly in
> my Z6 in spite of
> the fact that amelanchier Canadensis is a native and many
> types of
> "shadblow" do well here.  The last of my Canadian
> varieties died last season
> of fire blight.  I have Canadensis growing with great
> vigor within a stones
> throw of where I planted the Canadians.
> 
> I've harvested fruit from trees I planted for a client
> years ago that had a
> name that signified it's brilliant fall color- can't
> remember what it was
> but I believe it was a selected variety of
> Canadensis.  The fruit was
> plentiful and tasty enough with a distinctive almond
> taste.  To me, better
> for forage than taking home.  The birds adore them but
> the fruit all ripens
> within a few days so if a tree's not too tall you get
> access to some at
> least at some sites.
> 
> I was able to get large (1.5" caliber and well branched 7'
> trees) from a mid
> western nursery for a very good price as bare roots and
> they plugged in
> quickly.  They're tough trees sometimes planted in
> shopping malls because
> they are that way and don't need much pruning.  All
> and all they're very
> attractive.
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