Elderberry Young Plants
Elderberry Young Plants
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Howunder® - Sambucus canadensis as a garden elderberry
In addition to the black elderberry (Sambucus nigra), other species have great horticultural potential. Apart from the different native elderberry species used as wild and bird food trees, there is also the Canadian elderberry – sometimes also known as the American elderberry. In this article, we would like to show how the Howunder® – what we call the Canadian elderberry – can enrich any assortment and any garden.
How do I put together my berry assortment?
Hopefully they are on holiday. Or even better, enjoy the fact that everyone else is on holiday. But once again, every plant producer is wondering which berry plants, varieties and assortments to choose for next spring. Because soon the young plants will have to be ordered. At Lubera Edibles, too, young plant production is controlled according to the order history and incoming orders. Later in winter or spring, you then have to take what is still available.
The demand for berry plants
Actually, no one really knows the exact demand for berry plants. The market is too small for a statistically analysable survey to be worthwhile. By interpreting the sales figures of our online sister company Lubera.com for this small study, we can gain important insights into the natural demand for berry plants.
Wild fruit breeding at Lubera®
Unknown or little-known, hardly noticed fruit species are also worked on in the Lubera breeding programme. But why do we care about the obscure, little demanded, often not directly edible berry and fruit species, when we could possibly invest more in raspberry breeding? In this article, Markus Kobelt shows the importance of wild fruit species in the Lubera breeding programme and also describes in concrete terms the objectives for which research is carried out on the various wild fruit species.
Wild fruit young plants and specialities – A niche assortment with a future
Learn more about Lubera Edibles’ range of wild fruit young plants.
By definition, wild fruit is fruit that has been only minimally cultivated. However, since the transition to cultivated fruit is quite smooth, an exact separation is often not possible at all. Wild fruits are often pure processing fruits. But not all of them. There are also fruits that are very suitable for eating fresh.
In addition, the plants are not only valuable for harvesting. The wild fruit plants also have a high ecological...