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Fruit:
Purple-red, edible, sweet. Good for fresh eating, jams and
jellies.
Soil
Requirements: Well-drained soil with consistent moisture
and average fertility.
Size: 5-feet tall and 3-feet wide
Sun:
Full sun
Uses: Mixed border, shrub border, hedge.
Attracts birds.
Hardiness: Zones 3-7
Native: to North America
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This delicious raspberry variety is a cross between a purple
and a red raspberry and combines the best features of both.
'Royalty Purple' has large fruit size and vigorous growth,
with the high fruit quality and flavor of a red raspberry.
It makes great jams and jellies, and also freezes well as
whole fruit. Birds and people love the fruit of this plant.
The dark-colored fruit is very high in antioxidants, so it's
a healthy treat! It has good resistance to raspberry aphids
and also suckers sparingly, so it's easy to maintain. Very
winter hardy canes (hardy to -30 degrees) make it an ideal
plant for gardeners who are too far north to grow black raspberries.
Canes grow up to 5-feet tall and spread about 3-feet wide.
Raspberries are wonderful plants for birds because, if left
unpruned, they form "thickets" that provide excellent
nesting, roosting and hiding places for birds. The fruit,
of course, is also a highly desired and healthy food source
for birds.
What you'll receive:
1-year, field-grown plants with 12 to 18-inch long stems and
shipped bareroot (no soil or pot)
and dormant (no foliage). Learn more about
our plants.
Shipping: 1-4 plants=$11.00; add $1.50 for
each additional plant over 4 plants. Shipped UPS Ground in
spring from early April through mid May.
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Raspberries require a well-drained but consistently moist,
rich soil for best growth. They need full sun for highest
fruit production. Space 3-feet apart. Fertilize your plants
once a year in the spring before the plants bloom with a natural
or organic, basic garden fertilizer.
Fruit is produced on two-year old canes, so if you're growing
raspberries for fruit production, correct pruning can affect
the fruit yield.
Pruning Primer. Raspberry roots and crowns
live for a very long time, but the canes die after two years.
Royalty Purple raspberries produce fruit on two-year old canes,
so you want to prune out the two-year old canes after you've
harvested the fruit. You can either prune in the late fall
or when the plants are dormant in winter or early spring to
remove two-year old canes and dead or damaged canes.
What's a "bareroot" plant?
 "Bareroot"
is a term that describes how a plant is shipped to you. A
bareroot plant is not in a pot, and is usually dormant (not
actively growing). See the photo to the right that shows what
a bareroot rose looks like. The bareroot plants that we ship
to you were harvested in the fall and placed in cold storage
over the winter to keep them dormant. In the spring, we ship
the bareroot plants to our customers, from early April through
mid May.
Bareroot plants are easy to grow. We include planting instructions
with your order. When you receive your plant, take it out
of the packing material and place it in a bucket of water
so that the roots are completely covered. Let the roots soak
for 4 to 24 hours, then plant it in your garden. Full planting
instructions with photos are available on our planting
shrubs page.
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