New Serviceberry Plant

[Republic DC-9]

Not totally badass, but amusing and satisfying.

Yesterday I photographed this lovely Red Spotted Purple butterfly in our front yard Serviceberry - this native plant attracts all kinds of wildlife.

So this am my wife went shopping for another one for our wooded backyard tree line and soon texted me a photo of a GIANT plant - already half price!  “Um…I’ll come help you”.

She’d taken our “old” 2013 Civic, I raced there in the new 24 Civic (both amazing cars BTW, and having a Civic only fleet seems to have accelerated our journey to FIRE readiness.

Amid much swearing by me and a tarp and a bungee cord I somehow got it in the car and safely home…she said I looked like the Griswolds hauling home their oversized Christmas tree. :).   No pickup truck needed!

After much digging in mud and more swearing as thunder approached we now have a second beautiful Serviceberry and our resident catbird is adorably already perching in the new bush and enjoying the improvements!

This continual turning of our residential lot into a pollinator and bird’s paradise of native plants is how we’d like to spend our hopefully soon ER.

[rosarugosa]

That's a wonderful goal.  We are retired and spend a lot of time gardening, with a focus on growing more native plants in recent years.

[uniwelder]

Sounds like an adventure! Good for you and your birds.

I love serviceberries! Native and easy to grow. They make excellent pies, similar to blueberry, but since they’re drier, the pie holds together better. Also, you don’t even notice the seeds when cooked, as they seem to soften to nothing.

I’m not sure which variety you bought, but there is a more treelike version (amelanchier canadensis) and shrub type (amelanchier alnifolia). In Canada, they’re grown commercially for jam and some home nurseries sell more heavily fruiting varieties. We planted several at our old house and some at our new home.