Saskatoons will flourish outside the prairie provinces. Elsewhere several relatives of varying stature are valued as ornamentals. All produce edible berries following a floriferous spring display and follow up with colourful fall foliage
A car with U.S plates was driving through Canada's flattest province. Confused to their location and seeing a local alongside the road, the wife told her husband to pull over and ask for directions. He did so, asking "Where are we?" "Saskatoon, Saskatchewan." Wife: "Come on and let's find someone who speaks English."
In fact the prairie city is named after the delicious berry bush. In turn this derives from the Cree misâskwatômina for Amelanchier alnifolia. Native to western Canada and hardy in the extreme it varies from a two metre suckering shrub to small tree double or more that height.