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Potted Royalty Purple Raspberry

Available only for pick-up at nursery.

Species: Hybrid of Rubus idaeobatus and Rubus occidentalis

History: Royalty was bred at the Geneva Experiment Station in Geneva, New York as a cross between red and black raspberries. It was released in 1982 and is the most popular purple raspberry variety on the market for both its productivity and sweetness. 

Why We Grow It: Royalty is an excellent summer-bearing variety, producing ample crops of large (some get an inch long!), purple berries that are very sweet. Purple raspberries are a unique hybrid which can be picked while a little unripe and still red for a classic raspberry flavour or when fully ripe and purple for a sweeter taste more akin to black raspberries. Steph is impressed with the quality, flavour and long harvest window of this variety.

$21.00 $12.60
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Fruit Traits:

Recommended Use: Fresh eating, drying, juice, canning, freezing

Fruit Size: Large

Storage: Keeps less than a week when stored in the fridge

Harvest: Mid July

Cider Class (if applicable):

Tree Traits:

Canadian Hardiness Zone: 4

Soil Preferance: Loam and sandy loam, prefers soils that are moist but well-drained

Flowering Time:

Bloom Colour: White

Pollination Requirements: Self-pollinating, this variety will produce fruit without a different raspberry variety but will produce more and better fruit if one is present

Sun/Shade Requirements: Full sun (approx. 8-10 hours of sun daily)

General Growth Habit: Vigorous and cold hardy, upright growth habit. Generally resistant to insects, immune to raspberry aphid.

Overall Disease Resistance Rating*:

*this rating is combined with our experience growing in our test orchards combined with already available information on the cultivar.

Shipping: Every year we ship thousands of plants across Canada. We carefully bag roots in damp sawdust, then box them and send them out via courier. CLICK HERE to see our shipping policy.

Pick-up: We also have thousands of trees picked up from our nursery each year. The pick-up options is free, though you must wait until you have been emailed a confirmation that your order is ready to pick up, which will have further information such as hours, locations, etc.

We have simplified our crop inventory for grafted fruit trees into two sizes:

1m+ Grade: this often has some feathering, and is measured including the rootstock.

50-80cm Grade: this is like a 'b-grade' tree, sometimes with minor scaring or bent, these trees are priced accordingly.

Potted Royalty Purple Raspberry

Potted Royalty Purple Raspberry

$21.00 $12.60
$21.00 $12.60

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