Strawberry 'Summer Breeze Snow' – Double Flowered Everbearer (2L Pot)

Strawberry 'Summer Breeze Snow' is grown for two things at once: layered, rose-like white flowers and a long run of firm, juicy fruit.

Unlike an ordinary garden strawberry it flowers as ornamentally as a bedding plant, then keeps fruiting in flushes from June through to the first frost rather than giving one heavy crop and stopping. That is what everbearing means, and it is the reason this one suits a pot by the door or a basket you walk past every day. The plants stay compact and neat, and they throw almost no runners, so they do not sprawl the way a traditional variety does.

Grow it in full sun in good compost, water evenly while the fruit is swelling and feed with a high-potash liquid feed through the season. Bees visiting the flowers improve the shape of the fruit. The plant arrives in a 2 litre pot, grown peat-free in Yorkshire and already well established, so it can go straight out once you have somewhere sunny for it. Plants tire after three or four years and are best replaced then.

Cultural Information

• Common Name: Strawberry
• Fully Grown Height and Spread: 25cm to 30cm tall by 25cm to 30cm wide
• Growth Habit: Compact, upright, almost runner-free perennial
• Perfect For: Patio pots, hanging baskets, border fronts, decorative kitchen gardens
• Foliage: Mid-green, glossy, three-part leaves, semi-evergreen in a mild winter
• Flowering Time: Late spring into autumn, with double white flowers
• Planting Position: Full sun. Grows well in patio containers and baskets
• Soil Type: Fertile, moisture-retentive, well-drained
• Hardiness: Fully hardy across Britain, though pots and baskets appreciate some root protection in a hard winter
• Maintenance: Water evenly and feed through fruiting, pick when fully red, replace after three or four years
• Seasonal Interest: Spring, summer and autumn
• Type: Hardy perennial fruit, grow your own