Jeżyna turned 'Olympic Double'

Many of them are offered for sale not for fruit, but for a rich ornamental value: attractive shoots, colorful leaves or ornamental flowers. An example of this type of plant is the blackberry "Olympic Double", grown for its beautiful fuchsia flowers. Blackberry turned 'Olympic Double' was bred in the USA by Raymond Creelman and introduced to the American market in the 1960s. In Poland, this variety has never been popularized, so in 2015 it was entered by Andrzej Kujawa's Bąblin Nursery for the Novelties Plant Competition of the exhibition "Green is Life".

Although she was not awarded a medal, she won the recognition and interest of both the jurors of the competition and visitors to the exhibition with her charm.Blackberry 'Olympic Double', also sold under the name 'Flore Pleno', is a vigorously growing shrub with straight, upright stems and full pink flowers.Plants reach up to 1 m in height. Thanks to the outgrowths, they widen to the sides and can be used for quick covering of small areas.

The leaves are trifoliate, with a serrated edge, pointed, light green, fall off in autumn. Attractive full flowers appear in May. They are made of numerous fuchsia-colored petals. After the flowers are fully open, white-aquamarine stamens and pistils appear inside. The flowers look beautiful against the background of bright leaves.

This variety looks impressive in groups of several or a dozen or so and in color combinations with other shrubs and trees, especially with decorative bark, and in the company of perennials.Due to the formation of suckers, it can be expansive, so apply a limitation at the border of the rebate, digging in a shallow depth (the suckers grow quite shallow under the soil surface) a plastic border.

Blackberry turned out to be 'Olympic Double' - requirements and endurance

Blackberry is a soil tolerant plant, grows well in most moderately fertile and well-drained garden soils. Although it prefers humus substrates, rich in nutrients, it can also cope with poorer soils.Shrubs grow best in sunny or semi-shaded positions.

The 'Olympic Double' variety is resistant to frost (zone 5b), but in harsh, snowless winters, similarly to fruit varieties, its above-ground shoots may freeze sometimes. Then the damaged twigs should be trimmed so that they do not mar the young shoots regenerating from the underground suckers.

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