Depending on temps (cooler the better), the blooms may last 10 days, perhaps 2 weeks on the outside. I've had hot temps reduce bloom time to as little as 5 days. After that comes berries that are quite good if you beat critters to them and the fall color is very good.

tj

Wonderful native tree. Short blooming period for me; usually about a week. GREAT value to wildlife. The berries are delicious to anything that can get a bite. Good-great fall color. Pretty foliage during the growing season. Serviceberries are a wonderful group of trees and should be planted more often IMO

Love these trees/bushes.

Ditto, my favorite tree. I love the salmon pink buds as they unfurl. Tree never looks tired, always fresh. Perfect small tree....

I have a multi-trunked Serviceberry and it is just lovely. It is a graceful tree, and the fall color is glorious. The birds - robins, catbirds, mockingbirds - line up on the branches for the berries, but then the Cedar Waxwings sweep in in flocks and take all the high berries. If I had room, I'd plant more of these.

yes, they come in different forms from low bushes to small single stemmed trees. However, even the single stemmed trees tend to sucker.

All the reasons listed above, are why, 7--8 years ago, I planted a large Amelanchier cultivar in a most focal spot in the "front garden", along the driveway and near the front door. It had a large vase shaped, multi-stemmed habit, graceful appearance, small leaves that cast light shade, and I looked forward to the berries and birds.

However, it didn't work out as planned. There is also a large cedar tree in the front yard and another big one out back. The first year the serviceberry grew okay, but after that it got a worse case of cedar apple rust every year. It would bloom nicely (but very short - 3 days), but then the berries got orangey fungus and shriveled up, and the tree was defoliated by the beginning of fall so I never saw the nice fall color.

So early last Spring I put it onto Craigslist free, 2 nice ladies came and dug it up, and I replaced it with the other option considered back then - a pink flowering dogwood, Cornus florida "Cherokee Brave'. :)

That totally sucks; I am so sorry that it worked out that way.

Agree with the comments above. I have a Robin Hill cultivar, single trunk, limbed up 5'. It is not as dense as some other common flowering trees (crab, pear, dogwood, cherry), but has nice year-round appeal. Good fall color, nice looking berries useful to wildlife. Tolerates wet/dry, sun/shade variability better than most small, flowering trees. Mine is at the front corner of the house as a foundation tree. Some might think that is not an optimum site, especially if you like more formal looking trees. But it is native and a good all-around tree. Definitely under-planted in my area.

Great! -- sad I have to wait until mid-July for them to get started but when you live somewhere with a short growing season, landscapers are very busy in the summer.