Glen Magna Raspberry Plants

Glen Magna Raspberry Plants

Glen Magna is a superb raspberry bush. The later season plants (late summer) tend to have the best flavours and this is no exception. The big, deeply coloured fruit's delicious, almost too good to use for anything other than eating fresh off the branch. These are certified raspberry plants grown from virus-tested parent material in the UK. An upright, tidy and vigorous plant, Glen Magna is also reliably healthy.

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Features

• Very vigorous with long canes.
• Upright growth.
• Resistant to bushy dwarf virus, large raspberry aphid and root rot.
• Few spines on the fruiting ends of the canes (the bases have more thorns).
• Fruit weight is up to 6-7g.
• Soft fruit's sweet and richly flavoured.
• Crops July - Early August
• Certified virus free
• RHS Plants for Pollinators
• RHS Award of Garden Merit

Growing Glen Magna Raspberry Plants:

Glen Magna is more resistant to root rot than most other breeds, so it'll tolerate slightly damper conditions - that said, we stress that good drainage is still very important.
Raspberries are easy to grow, but they do need good conditions: a rich soil that drains well & is kept moist in dry weather, lots of sun and ideally some shelter from strong wind.

History & Trivia

The Scottish Crop Research Institute name all their raspberry canes after Scottish Glens. Glen Magna was bred from Meeker and an unreleased plant called SCRI 7719B11.

Glen Magna isn't grown commercially on any large scale - like so many delicious varieties of fruit, this is because it's soft and doesn't travel well.

Standard practice is to deliver raspberry canes with last year's growth cut back to 45-60 cm.

Therefore, summer fruiting raspberries will bear few, if any, berries in the Summer following planting. Their first full fruiting season will be in the year after.