Rubus Heritage Raspberry
Rubus idaeus 'Heritage'
Heritage is a classic name in Raspberries, a red variety with sweet flavor and great holding ability on the vine. Unlike some varieties, Heritage will not fall to pieces if you delay picking the ripe fruit a day or two; it stays firm, juicy, and super-flavorful. Excellent eaten fresh or in jams.
| Key feature: | Edible |
| Plant type: | Vine - Requires Support |
| Garden style: | Cottage |
| Deciduous/evergreen: | Deciduous |
| Cold hardiness zones: | 4 - 8 |
| Light needs: | Full sun |
| Water Needs: | Needs regular watering - weekly, or more often in extreme heat. |
| Average landscape size: | Rapid-growing canes to 5 to 6 ft. long. |
| Growth rate: | Fast |
| Special features: | Attracts Birds, Edible, Showy Fruit |
| Landscape uses: | Border, Seacoast Exposure, Woodland Garden |
| Flower color: | White |
| Blooms: | Spring |
| Foliage color: | Green |
| Item no.: | 7004 |
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Care Information
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Feed with a commercial fertilizer before new growth begins in spring. Train one-year-old canes on trellis, prune canes that have fruited.
Design Ideas
Plant this tasty berry near a fence, wall or wherever you can provide plenty of support and room for its long, fruit-laden canes. Grow as a freestanding shrub a in large garden bed and stake canes. An ideal and delicious Raspberry to grow for two crops or--if all the canes are cut down in late winter--one, large late crop. Be the only one on your block with fresh raspberries in September!
History
The genus Rubus aka brambles falls into the Rosaceae family and may resemble some of the bramble roses. This group contains most of the berry fruits that are botanically speaking not true berries but drupe fruit. Linnaeus named it from the classical name for raspberries, ruber, meaning red. He chose the species name from the Roman physician Pliny's description of the plants on Mount Ida in Greece. It is a huge genus with over 400 species in North America alone, which causes treat taxonomic confusion, as well as many others scattered throughout the Northern Hemisphere. This cultivar is noted as a productive thornless variety.
Heritage is a classic name in Raspberries, a red variety with sweet flavor and great holding ability on the vine. Unlike some varieties, Heritage will not fall to pieces if you delay picking the ripe fruit a day or two; it stays firm, juicy, and super-flavorful. Excellent eaten fresh or in jams.
Care Information
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Feed with a commercial fertilizer before new growth begins in spring. Train one-year-old canes on trellis, prune canes that have fruited.
Design Ideas
Plant this tasty berry near a fence, wall or wherever you can provide plenty of support and room for its long, fruit-laden canes. Grow as a freestanding shrub a in large garden bed and stake canes. An ideal and delicious Raspberry to grow for two crops or--if all the canes are cut down in late winter--one, large late crop. Be the only one on your block with fresh raspberries in September!
History
The genus Rubus aka brambles falls into the Rosaceae family and may resemble some of the bramble roses. This group contains most of the berry fruits that are botanically speaking not true berries but drupe fruit. Linnaeus named it from the classical name for raspberries, ruber, meaning red. He chose the species name from the Roman physician Pliny's description of the plants on Mount Ida in Greece. It is a huge genus with over 400 species in North America alone, which causes treat taxonomic confusion, as well as many others scattered throughout the Northern Hemisphere. This cultivar is noted as a productive thornless variety.
| Key feature: | Edible |
| Plant type: | Vine - Requires Support |
| Garden style: | Cottage |
| Deciduous/evergreen: | Deciduous |
| Cold hardiness zones: | 4 - 8 |
| Light needs: | Full sun |
| Water Needs: | Needs regular watering - weekly, or more often in extreme heat. |
| Average landscape size: | Rapid-growing canes to 5 to 6 ft. long. |
| Growth rate: | Fast |
| Special features: | Attracts Birds, Edible, Showy Fruit |
| Landscape uses: | Border, Seacoast Exposure, Woodland Garden |
| Flower color: | White |
| Blooms: | Spring |
| Foliage color: | Green |
| Item no.: | 7004 |
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