Rubus idaeus 'NR7' RUBY BEAUTY^®

Rubus idaeus 'NR7' RUBY BEAUTY®
thornless raspberry

SIZE/TYPE	small shrub
USUAL HEIGHT	0.5-1m
USUAL WIDTH	0.5-1m
LEAVES	deciduous broadleaf
COLOUR OF LEAVES	green
FLOWERS	insignificant or non-blooming
LOCATION	full sun
USDA zone (lowest)	5 (down to -29°C)
WINTER PROTECTION
FOR ZONE 5+6
FOR ZONE 7
BELONGS TO CATEGORIES	Fruit trees

New Zealand company Plant and Food Research came up with an extraordinary addition to the berry family - a dwarf, compact raspberry. In Europe it is marketed under trade name RUBY BEAUTY^®.

RUBY BEAUTY^® raspberry is a thornless variety valued for its bushy and compact growth. It is ideal for those who don't have a garden and yet want to have some fruit on the balcony or patio. It produces plenty of very delicious and sweet, medium sized fruit on previous year's canes. We were pleasantly surprised by its taste and long fruiting period - first fruit ripens in June and the plant keeps on flowering until late August, so in early September you can still have some berries. The breeder says that a mature plant can produce as much as 1.5 kg of raspberries in one season.

Old canes that have produced fruit should be removed as soon as fruit is harvested to make room for new canes that will bear fruit in the following year. Raspberries are not picky about soil type but if grown in containers they will need a dose of slow-release fertilizer every spring. It needs a lot of sun and is fully hardy in zones 5 and up, possibly more but we have not had a chance to test it.

Last update 30-11-2016

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GLOSSARY

STANDARD QUALITY - Plants of this group are 1st class quality with number of branches and overall density adequate to their size and age, considering they were container grown.
DE LUXE QUALITY - This label guarantees a luxurious quality of manually selected plants that, compared to their height and age, are exceptionally dense and beautiful.
EXTRA - These plants are usually mature and bigger specimens with exceptional overall appearance.
STANDARD (as described in the plant form) means a tree with a trunk of 190-210 cm and a crown at the top, unless specified differently. The commercial size for trees is their girth measured in the height of 1m from ground.
HOBBY - These plants are of the same quality as our standard-quality plants but younger and therefore cheaper.
SHRUB - a woody plant with branches growing bushy from the ground level.
HALF-STANDARD or MINI-STANDARD - a small tree with shorter trunk, its size is usually specified.
FEATHERED - These are trees with branches growing already from the base of the trunk and up along the stem.
GRASSES and PERENNIALS - Sizes given usually read the diameter of the pot or the clump, as specified.