Downy Serviceberry Tree

One of the best flowering and berry-producing must-haves for you and your birds is the delicious and easy-to-grow flowering native Downy Serviceberry Tree (Amelanchier arborea)! These airy shrubby trees have a fine-textured informality that lightens the mood in any landscape!

Spring starts the show with a cloud of gorgeous white blossoms! The snowy, lightly scented flowers are a vital nectar and pollen source for Pollinators! Sometimes known as Shadbush, the Downy Serviceberry is named for its silvery 'downy' foliage when it first emerges in spring! The lithe branching and soft fluttering foliage only add to these multi-stemmed trees' beauty!

Also known as the June Berry, you and your feathered friends will enjoy a juicy June crop of blue-black berries amid the light green, lightly toothed foliage! The berries resemble blueberries and can be eaten fresh, baked into desserts, and made into delectable jams and jellies! If you don't get to them in time, the local bird population will help themselves to their share!

The fine-textured foliage becomes a brilliant incredible fall color of reds, oranges and yellows! Hardy throughout USDA planting zones 4 to 9, these native Serviceberry plants grow 18 - 24 feet in height and 15 - 20 feet in width but can be trained into a tree or shrub form.

Planting and Application:

Pretty Serviceberry are fantastic edible landscaping flowering trees and shrubs with incredible fall color. Casting dappled light shade, they are lovely any place in the front or back yard garden! Keep the lower limbs for a hedge and screening plant and light and airy naturalized groupings.

Or, you can 'limb-up' these multi-branched flowering edible ornamentals to create a unique specimen tree! No need to worry about the grass beneath your Serviceberry's canopy because the light shade won't kill your lawn.

You'll see a wide variety of local and migrating birds come to visit the summer feast your tree produces! Insectivorous birds and wildlife receive food support as well because Downey is a Host Plant for many butterfly and moth larvae, too!

• Lightly Fragrant White Spring Blooms
• Rounded Open Crowns & Airy Branching
• Pollinator Friendly Flowers
• Edible Summer Fruit & Bird-Friendly Food Source
• Hedges, Light Screening & Shade, Specimens & Edible Landscaping

#ProPlantTips for Care:

Serviceberry Trees are easy to grow! Typically an understory tree, Serviceberry tolerates both full and partial sun. Plant in moderately fertile, well-drained soil that's kept at average moisture levels. Mulch is great for these trees, otherwise, they're very low maintenance! Prune into a tree or shrub after fruiting or renewal prune shrub forms to maintain vigorous younger stems by removing older stems every 3-5 years.

• Full Sun & Partial Shade
• Well-Drained Enriched Soil
• Regular Moderate Moisture Needs
• Prune After Fruiting in Summer
• Hardy Native Plants & Widely Adaptable

Fragrant snowy blooms, juicy edible berries and incredible fall color can be had all on one hardy, native plant! Order the Downy Serviceberry Tree today before they're gone at NatureHills.com!