wilkes

Thank so much for everyones help.

You can order the Shadblow, also known as Sarvis, service berries, and, in some areas as Buffalo Berries. Plants are available from naturehills.com/bushes . The phone number is 1-888-864-7663. They also sell true Buffalo berries. Very hardy. No known pests. Very fruitful---but, they have thorns. They grow fast but do not become pests. The fruit makes great jelly. Native Americans used both in their dried pemmican mixture.

I dug up a small Service Berry tree at the edge of the woods and planted it in my yard. It took a lot of pampering but it lived. That was over 20 years ago and I no longer live there, but the tree is still there. They bloom a beautiful white bloom in the early Spring before the tree leafs out. You can drive along most roads in Wilkes in the early Spring and look along the edges of woods and you can see the Service Berry along with the Red Bud (Red Bud has a bright pink bloom) making a beautiful color combination of white & bright pink. I never got any of the berries off my Service Berry because the birds got them. They will eat them before they are completely ripe.

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You're welcome! I ate as many I could years ago! I wonder if they would taste as good as they did when we all called them sarvis berries?

Also does anyone have any of these trees that I might could get a starter ? Thanks so much.

Thank you so much my aunt always called them sarvis berries, makes sense that the old language from long ago would take service to sarvis. I have great childhood memories of waiting on the school bus when school started back and eating all we could before the bus arrived.

Google service berries, and you will find the information you are looking for.

Not sure if spelling is correct but we had a tree growing up with small pinkish red berries very sweet and tender . You could mash one easily when ripe. I've tried internet search no luck. Please help.