Rubus arcticus x stellarcticus 'Valentina'

Valentina Arctic Raspberry is a creeping, thornless, deciduous shrub that is best used as a ground-cover. Rubus arcticus x stellarcticus 'Valentina' produces an abundance of large, bright red, sweet, edible fruit. Arctic raspberry fruit ripen in July-August. It is a rare and unique variety of Raspberry from the Swedish breeder Gunny Larsson.

Valentina Nagoonberry spreads slowly through rhizomes, and forms a dense carpet of attractive foliage with pink flowers in the spring, and red berries in the summer. The foliage turns radiant burgundy and crimson colours in the fall.

This ground-cover requires another variety of Arctic Raspberry, like Anna, to produce fruit. Valentina Arctic Bramble flowers and fruits are beneficial to pollinator species like bees and butterflies as well as wildlife species, like birds. As the name suggests, Arctic Raspberry is very cold hardy, and will die back to the ground over the winter then re-emerge in the spring. Valentina is a slightly shorter variety of Arctic Raspberry growing to a max height of 4-8 in.