{"id":10224,"date":"2018-03-17T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=10224"},"modified":"2017-11-16T18:02:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T23:02:05","slug":"native-serviceberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2018\/03\/17\/native-serviceberry\/","title":{"rendered":"Native Serviceberry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fall color of A. laevis in container<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mult-trunked Amelianchier x laevis<\/p><\/div>\n

Serviceberry (Amelanchier arborea) <\/em>is a medium-sized native tree. Its native range stretches from Ontario to the Gulf Coast (USDA hardiness zones 4-9). However, it performs well across the Western and Central U.S. Serviceberry is regionally known by many names, including shadbush, shadblow, sarvisberry, sarvis tree, and Juneberry. The latter refers to the small greenish-blue, ripening red fruits in late May here in East Tennessee (USDA hardiness zones 6 and 7).<\/p>\n

A frosty sighting on a mountainside in an early spring morn is likely\u00a0serviceberry in bloom. Serviceberry\u2019s small white blooms signals that the winter season is coming to an end. Flowering usually lasts 7-10 days. Its purple fruits attract multiples of birds. Soon thereafter, hundreds of seedlings will germinate in\u00a0your landscape. In 5 to 6 years you may be enjoying a shade from one of these seedling trees.<\/p>\n

The tree naturally develops multi-trunked unless trained as a single trunk tree at the nursery. Serviceberry can be utilized as a street tree and a yard tree. Leading cultivars (hybrids) are \u2018Autumn Brilliance\u2019, \u2018Forest Prince\u2019, \u2018Princess Diana\u2019 and \u2018Robin Hill\u2019. They\u2019re listed as hybrid crosses (A. x grandiflora)<\/em> and\u00a0 Downy serviceberry (A. arborea<\/em>). Shrubby Allegheny serviceberry (A. laevis<\/em>) is also commonly planted.<\/p>\n

Annual growth rate is rapid, 20 to 30 feet tall and 15-20 feet wide in 20 years. Serviceberry tolerates many kinds of soils, preferring moist, acidic, well-drained soil, and partial to full day sun. Irrigate and mulch a newly planted tree until it is established. Within two years a tree can handle moderately dry spells. If pruning is needed, do so in the spring after flowering.<\/p>\n

In most years, serviceberries suffer from few disease and pest issues. In a rare wet summer, severe leaf spotting may result in an early leaf loss in August and dash all hopes of fall color.<\/p>\n

Serviceberry’s multi-trunked branching fashions a wonderful winter silhouette on a dreary snowy day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Serviceberry (Amelanchier arborea) is a medium-sized native tree. Its native range stretches from Ontario to the Gulf Coast (USDA hardiness zones 4-9). However, it performs well across the Western and Central U.S. Serviceberry is regionally known by many names, including shadbush, shadblow, sarvisberry, sarvis tree, and Juneberry. The latter refers to the small greenish-blue, ripening […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,657,1218,747,1319,749,1281,1037,674,645,806,665,774,853,551,627,843,1059,951,601,729,855,777,630,705,646,7,850,708,655,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10230,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10224\/revisions\/10230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}