These easy to grow and delicious fruits are hardy and vigorous producers.
Latin Name
Fragaria x ananassa
Family
Rosaceae
Type of Plant
Fruits
Perennials
Bloom Season
May
Seasons
Spring
Specifications
Max Height: 0.75'
Max Spread: 1.5'
Uses
Sunlight Exposure
Full Sun
Attracted Wildlife
Birds
Colors
Native Range
Europe
History
Winthrop Sargent wrote to Washington in 1798, "I send you a few Seed of the Scarlet Alpine Strawberry which in my Garden produces most excellent Fruit during all the Summer and Autumn and which have not been till lately known to me in America-- for twenty Years I was unsuccessfully essaying to procure it."
Other Details
Pollinator
Grown by Washington
Sold at Mount Vernon
Planted at Mount Vernon
Hardiness Zones
Average annual extreme minimum temperature 1976-2005
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