Royalty Purple Raspberry

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

Canadian Hardiness Zone: 4

Soil Preference: Loam and sandy loam, prefers soils that are moist but well-drained. Do not plant raspberries in soil where tomatoes, eggplants, potatoes, peppers, and/or strawberries were grown in the last five years due to the risk that soil diseases from these plants could affect raspberries.

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 Habits:

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

Type: Floricane, bears fruit in the summer and only on second year growth

Thorns: Yes

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Shipping: Every year we ship thousands of trees across Canada (except BC due to CFIA regulations). We carefully bag roots in damp sawdust, then box them and send them out via courrier. 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 really appreciate if you can make an appointment to pick up, then we can be as organized as possible during our busy season.

Raspberries are divided into the following grades:

• 1 year cane - pruned to 30cm
• 2 year cane - pruned to 30cm, may have multiple canes in a single clump and/or extensive roots

There is some overlap in size since we are also taking the age of the plants into account. Some older plants may not have put on quite as much vegetative growth but will have larger root systems. 

Unless specified, heights exclude the roots since seedlings and some berries will often have a lot of root growth but relatively little vegetative growth (ex. our Shagbark Hickories seedlings are often 5-15cm above the soil but will have roots that reach 20cm+ in length).

Not all of our berries and seedlings will be available in all of these grades since growth rate can vary significantly across species and even varieties. While we remain competitive in our plant size, it's also worth noting we don't use synthetic chemicals to push vegetative growth, therefore you may find conventional nursery stock larger in some instances comparatively.