Fragaria vesca ‘White Delight’
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Fragaria vesca ‘White Delight’, White Fruiting Strawberry
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Fragaria
Small white flowers followed by small, edible sweet white fruit that are less prone to bird attack. Trifoliate, mid green, toothed leaves. Culinary; very young leaves can be used in salads, the fruit is delicious in salads, puddings and drinks.
Characteristics:
• Hardiness: H6 (-15 to -20C)
• Type: Perennial
• Height: 30cm
• Spread: 18cm including runners indefinite.
White Fruiting Strawberry can be seen at the herb farm in Jekka’s Herbetum and is available to buy as herb plants.
Details
• Aspect: Sun, Partial Shade
• Soil type: Sand, Loam, Clay
• pH: Universal pH
• Habit: Clump, Creeping
• Flowering colour: White
• Flowering time: Summer
• Uses: Culinary & Medicinal (Read Jekka’s Guide To Culinary Herbs and Medicinal Herbs for more information)
• Attracts pollinators: No
• Container suitability: Yes
• UK native: Yes
• Caution: Strawberries can produce an allergic response
Growing
• Grown from seed: No
• Propagation: Cuttings & Division
• Maintenance: (See Jekka’s Blogs on Early Spring, Late Spring, Summer and Autumn maintenance)
• Harvest: N/A
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