Serviceberry (Juneberry or Shadblow)
Amelanchier species (ROSACEAE)
Planting and Growing Serviceberry Trees
You’ll find everything you need to know to plant and grow serviceberry, juneberry, or shadblow in the accompanying table’s tabs:
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- Flowers, foliage, and edible fruit of serviceberry, juneberry, or shadblow
- Growing conditions for serviceberry
- When to plant serviceberry
- How to plant serviceberry
- How to prune serviceberry
- Watering, fertilizing, and care of serviceberry
- Landscape uses of serviceberry
- Pest and disease control for serviceberry
Growing Serviceberry Trees
About 25 species of medium-growing, upright, round-crowned, open, deciduous shrubby trees, 20–40 ft. (6–12 m) tall, depending on species, often with multiple trunks, and with shiny, deep green, oval, pointed, toothed leaves, to 3 in. (75 mm) long, turning orange, yellow in autumn, and with silver gray, white bark.
Serviceberry Planting and Care Guide
Flowers and Fruit
Many ribbonlike, white flowers, to 2 in. (50 mm) long, borne in clusters in spring as leaves emerge, form edible, deep blue, berrylike fruit, to 1/3 in. (8 mm) wide, in summer.
Best Climates
U.S.D.A. Plant Hardiness Zones 1–8, depending on species. Best with winter chill.
Soil Type and Fertility
Moist, well-drained soil. Fertility: Rich–average. 6.0–7.0 pH.
Where and How to Plant
Full sun. Space 8–15 ft. (2.4–4.5 m) apart.
Proper Care
Moderate. Keep evenly moist. Fertilize annually in spring until established. Prune in autumn; remove suckers to maintain treelike appearance. Propagate by seed, suckers.
About This Species
Good choice for accents, containers, margins, paths, screens in cottage, small-space, woodland gardens and water features. Fruit attracts birds. Drops flowers, fruit, requiring maintenance. Lacewing, spider mite, scale and fireblight susceptible.