I am also looking for saskatoon berry plants. I am interested in the Thiessen. I am having a hardtime finding them at a resonable price, except for commercial growers. I just need a couple. Any ideas?

I have a young Amelanchier Alnifolia that fruited this last Summer,am unsure of the variety.The fruit taste was okay,not great.
I bought ten Northline seedlings from Burnt Ridge last year that need to grow some more before producing.
Charlie,I'm not sure of your price range,but Raintree is selling Thiessen at $11.50 and three or more for $8.50.
I'm including a link to a recent forum discussion about Saskatoons.In it milehighgirl gives a link describing some of the better tasting known varieties. Brady

Here is a link that might be useful: Saskatoons Juneberries

Have grown a number of the alnifolia/stolonifera types - including Smokey, Pembina, Theissen, Forestburg, Honeywood, Martin, Regent, Success. None performed well here, but cheap, row-run seedlings of Timm & Success have done well. Be aware that most of the named selections are of 'northern'(Canadian, Dakotas, etc.) origin, so YMMV.
Regent, I think, has performed well for the folks at Hidden Springs Nursery in TN.

St. Lawrence Nurseries in Potsdam, NY offers a larger selection of named variety juneberries/saskatoons than anyone I'm aware of - and selection can vary from year to year. Those I've purchased from them in the past were tissue-cultured clones.

OIKOS Tree Crops also offers a decent selection of seedlings of several different Amelanchier species and selections.

Americanchestnut -- Smoky is excellent. I have 4 varieties (forget all the others now, but I think they may be Regent, Northline and Thiessen) and Smoky is the only one I pick, I leave the others for the birds.

A couple years ago I added two Saskatoon/Serviceberry. One from St Lawrence and another from Rolling River. The one from RR was much larger (already blooming), while the SLN one was quite small and hasn't grown much. This past year the SLN (Fergie) bush had one clump of flowers, which was just enough to pollinate the RR bush (Regent). I didn't get to taste them, as something (birds?) stripped the berries before they were fully ripe.

Thanks, I think I will go with Smoky, Burnt ridge sells 10 of them for $35, and I've always gotten very good plants from them.

I was looking at those on the Burnt Ridge site a few months ago and thought it was interesting that they described them as "1 year seedling, 12-18 inch". They have Regent labeled as "6-12 inch rooted cutting", at a slightly higher price. So, it sounds like the Smokey are actually bushes that sprang up from seed, rather than clones. Do serviceberries breed true, or are you rolling the dice, as you would with an apple seedling?

I eventually decided not to get any, as I got a free Theissen with my Raintree order, but when you mentioned it, I was curious.

bob,
My understanding is that apomixis is common in Amelanchier - thus, many seedlings are often genetically identical to the 'mother' plant.
Haven't looked recently, but years back, one of the major Canadian saskatoon nurseries produced their named selections by growing them from seed. Looks to be a fairly standard practice.

i bought a Thiessen last week for $10 at Lowes! They had a lot of them too...