Royalty Purple Raspberries
About
his delicious raspberry variety is a cross between a purple and a red raspberry and combines the best features of both. 'Royalty Purple' has large fruit size and vigorous growth, with the high fruit quality and flavor of a red raspberry. It makes great jams and jellies, and also freezes well as whole fruit. Birds and people love the fruit of this plant. The dark-colored fruit is very high in antioxidants, so it's a healthy treat! It has good resistance to raspberry aphids and also suckers sparingly, so it's easy to maintain. Very winter hardy canes (hardy to -30 degrees) make it an ideal plant for gardeners who are too far north to grow black raspberries. Canes grow up to 5-feet tall and spread about 3-feet wide. Roylty Purple is a summer-bearing raspberry.
Raspberries are wonderful plants for birds because, if left unpruned, they form "thickets" that provide excellent nesting, roosting and hiding places for birds. The fruit, of course, is also a highly desired and healthy food source for birds.
