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| ARONIA MELANOCARPA FLOWERS... |
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| ARONIA MELANOCARPA SHRUB... |
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| ...BERRIES AND FALL LEAF COLOR |
Monday, 7:30 AM. 56 degrees F at the ferry dock, 52 on the back porch. The sky is overcast and cloudy, and it has rained a bit off and on. The humidity is 88% and the barometer is rising, currently at 29.95". It will be a cool, damp day, but should turn sunny tomorrow and Wednesday. I have a lot of weeding to catch up with and today will be a good day to do it.
Aronia melanocarpa, black chokeberry, in the Rose Family, is a low to medium-sized shrub native to much of the eastern US and southern Canada. Black chokeberry is a northern species, but it hybridizes with two other Aronia species and thus extends its range throughout much of eastern North America. It grows in wet areas on the fringes of sandy bogs and lakes but adapts to drier sites such as pine barrens and rocky wastes.
It offers a great deal of seasonal interest, bearing masses of flowers in spring, followed by clusters of blue-black fruit attractive to birds, and brilliant red-orange fall color. It tends to sucker and spread, and is best used in mass plantings where it can do so. Its species name describes its distinctive fruit, which is good for making jams and jellies.
Aronia is a pome fruit, closely related to pears, apples and plums, all of which are in the great Rose Family.
There are a number of native shrubs and small trees that provide great fall color, particularly when planted in masses and drifts, and I am using them more and more in naturalistic landscape designs.
Aronia melanocarpa, black chokeberry, in the Rose Family, is a low to medium-sized shrub native to much of the eastern US and southern Canada. Black chokeberry is a northern species, but it hybridizes with two other Aronia species and thus extends its range throughout much of eastern North America. It grows in wet areas on the fringes of sandy bogs and lakes but adapts to drier sites such as pine barrens and rocky wastes.
It offers a great deal of seasonal interest, bearing masses of flowers in spring, followed by clusters of blue-black fruit attractive to birds, and brilliant red-orange fall color. It tends to sucker and spread, and is best used in mass plantings where it can do so. Its species name describes its distinctive fruit, which is good for making jams and jellies.
Aronia is a pome fruit, closely related to pears, apples and plums, all of which are in the great Rose Family.
There are a number of native shrubs and small trees that provide great fall color, particularly when planted in masses and drifts, and I am using them more and more in naturalistic landscape designs.
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