Mara Des Bois
From june until frost this french variety produces a non stop harvest of fragrant lusciously sweet plump strawberries.
Mara des bois. Planted in the spring mara des bois will produce fruit during the summer into the fall. Berries have an attractive red color with a high gloss. The following year it produces a good spring crop with continued lighter production all season. Us plant patent 08 517.
Berries are blood red heart shape of good size and firm with a good shelf life. In late spring and throughout the summer it bears a profusion of small 5 petaled white flowers adorned with yellow centers. Mara des bois strawberry was developed by a french breeding program. Fragaria x ananassa mara des bois is an alpine strawberry but its fruits are equal in size to modern cultivars.
Charlotte is a french variety obtain from a cross between mara des bois and cal 19 a californian selection. This variety produces small to medium fruit and contains the highest flavor and fragrance of any everbearer. This variety has very good hardiness and good productivity. Berries have an attractive red color with a high gloss.
Excellent for container culture. How to grow fragaria mara des bois. Noted for its incredibly sweet and tasty fruits fragaria vesca mara des bois wild strawberry is a stoloniferous spreading perennial forming rosettes of tri foliate coarsely toothed bright green leaves. Despite various claims mara des bois is not a wild strawberry or an antique variety.
A specialty strawberry developed in france. Planted in the spring mara des bois will produce fruit during the summer into the fall. This variety produces small to medium fruit and contains the highest flavor and fragrance of any everbearer. This unique variety combines modern vigour and the cropping potential of commercial varieties with the intense aromatic flavours of woodland and alpine varieties.
From france the perfect variety for a container or raised bed. It s a fairly new hybrid of the regular garden strawberry fragaria ananassa developed for its intense flavor by strawberry breeder jacques marionnet 1 and introduced as a patented variety in france in 1991. Plant in spring in pots or in the ground. The chefs favourite over 15 million strawberry mara de bois plants are bought in france each year increasing home grown harvests by 10 000 tonnes every summer.
These unstoppable producers are perfect for containers or raised beds.