Choosing strawberry plants

Depending on strawberry colour

Strawberry plants are grown for their delicious fruit, which, in fact, are false fruits. Indeed, the true fruits are those small seeds on the surface of the strawberry. The most common colour for strawberries is of course red, more or less bright or dark, but there are also white strawberries to discover.

Red strawberries

The red of strawberries shows different variations from orange-red to bright red, as with classic and popular strawberry varieties Ciflorette, Garriguette and Charlotte.

Some varieties tend towards dark red, as is the case with wild strawberries, such as Strawberry ‘Mara des Bois’, or with the original Strawberry ‘Cherry Berry’.

Strawberries ‘Garriguette’

White strawberries

For something more original, you can plant a Strawberry ‘White Pineberry’, which produces pale white, slightly pinkish fruit. It is also known as the pineapple strawberry and its appeal lies in its flavour since the strawberry taste blends with that of pineapple.

Strawberries ‘White Pineberry’

Depending on strawberry flavour

When it comes to flavour, variety is on display. Among the most popular and fragrant strawberry varieties are, of course, the Strawberry Garriguette, as well as the Strawberry Ciflorette, both producing slightly tangy fruit in May–June.

The Strawberry Charlotte is, also, a classic for gardeners thanks to its very fragrant, sweet flavour.

Characterised by small fruits with intense flavour, wild strawberries are also popular. In this category, you can, for example, choose Fragaria vesca, or Strawberry ‘Mara des Bois’.

For a broader tasting experience, try our Collection of 3 strawberry plants Framberry, Cherry Berry, Pineberry, which lets you compare different flavours: between strawberry and raspberry for Framberry; strawberry, blackberry and raspberry notes for Cherry Berry; and a strawberry–pineapple mix for the white Pineberry.

‘Mara des Bois’ strawberries

Large strawberries or small strawberries?

While wild strawberries are reputed to be flavoursome but small, many strawberry plants produce very large fruit. Thus, the Gento strawberry plant produces fruit weighing between 40 and 50 g, with firm, juicy and sweet flesh, perfect for tarts and pastries.

Another plant producing large fruit, the Gorella strawberry plant yields conical, elongated strawberries weighing 30 to 40 g.

Gorella strawberries

Depending on productivity and harvest period

From harvest point of view, distinguish wild or four-season strawberries, which give small fruit from June to October, and varieties producing large fruit, which may be perpetual and fruit twice a year from June to October, or non-perpetual and fruit only once a year, in June.

Perpetual or non-perpetual strawberry plants

Among perpetual varieties are the Mara des Bois strawberry plant and the Reine des Vallées strawberry plant, which fruit from June to October, and the Mariguette strawberry plant, which produces from May to October.

Among non-perpetual varieties are, among others, Garriguette and Ciflorette strawberry plants, both harvested from May to June and recognised for their flavour.

‘Reine des Vallées’ strawberries

Early or late strawberry plants

Early strawberry plants begin to fruit in May. This is the case, for example, of the Maxim strawberry plant, a productive variety that yields large fruit from mid-May until June.

Another popular early variety: the Mariguette, with a flavour between wild strawberry and Garriguette, which fruits from May to October.

There are also late varieties such as the Maestro strawberry plant, which produces fruit from July to October.

To benefit from a longer harvest period, choose the Anaïs Organic strawberry plant, which produces delicious strawberries from late May until first frosts in October, or our Collection of 9 organic perpetual strawberry plants, to enjoy staggered harvests, also from late May until the frosts.

Early ‘Maxim’ and late ‘Anaïs Organic’ strawberry plants

Depending on garden use

Most often grown for their fruit, strawberry plants can also, depending on size, serve as groundcover or be planted for decorative effect.

Strawberry plants in open ground or in pots

Usually grown in open ground, strawberry plants, because of their small size, between 20 and 30 cm, are often used as groundcover, with wild strawberries, for example. Strawberry plants can however adapt very well to pots and brighten up your balcony or terrace. This is the case with Temptation strawberry, a wild strawberry variety that is grown in pots, window boxes or hanging baskets.

Another variety that adapts well to pot cultivation and in particular to hanging baskets, thanks to its trailing habit, the trailing F1 Toscana Deep Rose strawberry is a very decorative hybrid with its beautiful deep pink flowers and cone-shaped red fruit.

The Mount Everest climbing strawberry is notable for its long stems that can reach 1 m to 1.5 m and be trained on a support, or allowed to trail in a hanging pot.

You can also grow the Fragaria Pink Panda, an ornamental perennial strawberry, for its beautiful flowers with bright pink petals surrounding a centre of yellow stamens. Bonus: flowering period is long, from late spring to early autumn.

Strawberry plants in pots and ornamental strawberry ‘Fragaria Pink Panda’ on right

Organic strawberry young plants

Thanks to organic young plants, you can start organic farming. A whole range of strawberry plants is available as organic young plants, for example Mariguette for a healthy harvest from May to October, as well as the Rubis des Jardins strawberry, awarded a silver medal at SIVAL in Angers in 2014.

Good keeping quality

This can be a selection criterion if you want to eat them at their best.
Among strawberries that keep well after harvest are the Cijosée strawberry, as well as the Senga Sengana strawberry, whose fruit has an unusual musky aroma and freezes well.

‘Cijosée Organic’ strawberries have the advantage of keeping well once picked

All that’s left is to make your choice by exploring our complete collection of strawberry plants.