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Repeat-flowering strawberries: reliable choices for a plentiful harvest

The most delicious and productive repeat flowering strawberry varieties to grow in your garden

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Modified the 1 February 2026 by Pascale 6 min. Spring Difficulty: Débutant

Relatively easy to grow, the strawberry plant (strawberry plant (Fragaria spp.) finds its place in all gardens, from the kitchen garden near the vegetables, to the balcony in a large pot, passing by the foot of shrubs or in a flower bed. So long as it receives enough sun, non-calcareous, well-tilled, deep, rather humus-bearing soil and enriched with compost, the strawberry plant can thrive anywhere. So no reason not to treat yourself to beautifully red strawberries… Not to mention the choice is vast! Indeed there are four-season small-fruited strawberry plants, the famous wild strawberries, which bear fruit from May to October) and large-fruited strawberries that will delight food lovers. These latter fall into two categories: non-repeat-flowering strawberries which bear fruit only once a year, between May and July, and repeat-flowering strawberries, more generous, since the harvest extends from spring to autumn, with a short pause in midsummer during the hottest weather.

If you have decided to plant repeat-flowering strawberries, you can do so from September to May, though avoiding winter. But the period between April and May is quite favourable since the soil warms, temperatures are mild and rainfall is well distributed. You’ll even have the chance to taste your first strawberries after the summer heat.

So, here’s to your planting! I have selected the 9 best repeat-flowering strawberries, for delicious and indulgent desserts.

To learn more about strawberries: Strawberry: planting, growing, care.

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Mara des Bois, the must-have.

The ‘Mara des Bois’ is certainly one of the most popular and best-known strawberries, in home gardens as well as on market stalls. And rightly so, since it is a round strawberry with a beautiful brick-red, vivid and bright colour. Certainly, the fruits are not the largest, but on the palate they boast a delicious wild strawberry fragrance and woody aromas. These strawberries are also very sweet and fragrant. With relatively firm yet tender flesh, Mara des Bois is perfect for open-ground cultivation. It is renowned for its excellent productivity and its exceptional cold tolerance.

Mara des Bois best repeat-flowering strawberry

The Mara des Bois variety

Developed in 1992 after 15 years of research by the Marionnet family, based in Loir-et-Cher, this strawberry with an intense flavour also boasts good disease tolerance, particularly to powdery mildew. Its repeat-flowering is very strong, and its harvest remains substantial even during somewhat cooler periods. However, it absolutely does not tolerate calcareous soils.

This strawberry, awarded several times, remains a staple among repeat-flowering varieties.

The 'Gento' with very large fruits

The Gento variety is a strawberry plant that certainly produces the largest everbearing strawberries on the market. Each fruit can indeed reach 40 to 50 grams! The harvest can reach up to 1 kg per plant. Add to that the fact that these strawberries are very sweet and very fragrant, you can’t help but succumb to temptation. This relatively old variety still holds its own thanks to its dark red fruits with a firm, melt-in-the-mouth flesh, very juicy and fleshy, ideal for pastries and jam. It is a hardy strawberry variety of German origin, with easy rooting, and still one of the great garden classics.

Charlotte, the benchmark for repeat-flowering strawberries

The ‘Charlotte’ variety is a very widely grown strawberry on the French market. Developed in 2004 by CIREF (Interregional Centre for Strawberry Research and Experimentation), this strawberry directly references the delicious strawberry Charlotte. From its appearance on the market, this strawberry has met with considerable success. It has many qualities, not least a very long production period, including in summer. It indeed benefits from an excellent yield.

It is a variety that produces fruits that are sweet, not very acidic, moderately juicy and endowed with a strongly pronounced wild strawberry aroma. These strawberries are regular in shape, with a medium calibre and weighing around 20 grams. The Charlotte strawberries offer excellent eating quality; they store well.

The ‘Charlotte’ variety

The plants are vigorous and hardy, with low fertiliser requirements, and are especially resistant to powdery mildew and other diseases such as anthracnose or Phytophthora.

‘Anaïs’ with strong aromatic potential

The variety ‘Anaïs’ stands out from other varieties for its aromatic potential and consistent flavour across the seasons. It is a variety that produces oval fruits of medium size, weighing between 10 and 15 g. Very juicy on the palate, these strawberries are recognisable by their very bright orange colour. The flesh of these strawberries is highly fragrant, with a well-balanced flavour between sweetness and acidity. Production runs from the end of May to the first frosts, with a yield potential of medium to high. Their ability to continue bearing fruit remains regular, especially if the plants are properly cleaned and freed of old leaves and flowering stalks during the production period. The only drawback of this variety may lie in its medium keeping quality. But one suspects they will be devoured quickly!

In the garden, ‘Anaïs’ is a very vigorous variety, with very hardy growth. It shows complete resistance to botrytis, powdery mildew, and diseases affecting the root system.

‘Maestro’, a late variety with very large fruits.

The variety ‘Maestro’ offers beautiful, large, bright red fruits, rather conical, with exceptional flavour. Its strawberries are indeed distinguished by their firm and juicy flesh, sweet and very fragrant, but above all by their weight which rivals the variety ‘Gento’. Under optimal growing conditions, these strawberries can reach 50 g! Thus, this variety can produce up to 1 kg of fruit per plant. A safe bet for strawberry enthusiasts.

strawberry Maestro repeat-flowering variety

The Maestro variety

By contrast, it’s a late strawberry that does not bear its first fruit until June. But the harvest can continue until the first frosts, i.e., for five months on end.

In the garden, this strawberry variety is easy to grow. Its rooting is rapid and deep, its foliage is highly resistant to cold and frost, as well as to all common diseases.

The 'Toscana Deep Rose', ideal for container growing.

If you only have a balcony or terrace, growing strawberries in pots is perfectly feasible. But if you choose a suitable variety, yields will be much better. The variety ‘Toscana Deep Rose F1’ perfectly meets this pot-growing criterion. Indeed, This hybrid variety is as decorative as it is productive. Its broadly trailing habit allows it to be grown at height to facilitate harvesting. It also owes its aesthetic appeal to its beautiful dark pink flowering. The flowers have a diameter of 5 cm, considerably larger than other varieties, making them very noticeable.

In terms of fruiting, the fruits of this variety are ruby red, conical, medium to large in size, with a very intense, aromatic and very sweet flavour. Yields can reach up to 1 kg per pot and extend from May to the end of September, continuously.

strawberry Toscana selection repeat-flowering variety

The Toscana Deep Rose variety

'Queen of the Valleys', a repeat-flowering wood strawberry.

The variety ‘Reine des Vallées’ is an everbearing strawberry variety, the famous and delicious wild strawberries. It yields very fragrant fruit from May to October. The fruits of this strawberry plant are small, elongated in shape, and bright red. These berries, weighing around 1 g, have a very tasty, aromatic white flesh with a delicate perfume. They are perfect for eating fresh or for use in desserts. It is also very productive for around six months without a break.

In the garden, this variety can be grown just as well in pots as in the ground. It does not spread aggressively, as this variety produces few or no stolons.

The variety ‘Reine des Vallées’

Cirafine, a strawberry plant closely related to Mara des Bois.

The Cirafine variety was obtained in 1998 by CIREF (Interregional Centre for Strawberry Research and Experimentation) to meet quality criteria. This variety therefore produces slightly elongated strawberries with excellent flavour. Very fragrant on the palate, bright red in colour, they recall the ‘Mara des Bois’. In terms of size, these strawberries are medium-sized and weigh around 13 to 15 g. They are deliciously sweet, very aromatic on the palate and juicy. Their keeping quality is superior to Mara des Bois.

strawberry Cirafine repeat flowering variety

The Cirafine variety

In the garden, this variety proves vigorous and hardy. It is resistant to powdery mildew and has intermediate resistance to other strawberry diseases.

The 'Mariguette', a cross-breeding between two stars.

Obtained by the Marionnet family, this strawberry is the result of a cross-breeding between two stars: the ‘Gariguette’ and the ‘Mara des bois’. Born of this union, Mariguette offers large fruits elongated, bright orange-red in colour, with a flavour reminiscent of the ‘Gariguette’ in its taste and its woodland strawberry fragrance. The strawberries are very sweet, with a mild flavour, firm and juicy. They keep very well. All of these qualities make it a premium strawberry that holds its shape very well in pastries.