THE MOTHER VINE™
A Living History of the Scuppernong Grape

For more than 400 years, the Mother Vineyard scuppernong grape vine on Roanoke Island, North Carolina has been - and still is - producing crops of succulent bronze-colored fruits.

In 1584, English explorers Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe arrived on the Island of Roanoke. Barlowe noted in his journal that, upon arriving on the Outer Banks of what is now North Carolina, he observed that the land was so full of grapes as the very beating and surge of the sea overflowed them. "We found such plenty, as well there, as in all places else - both on the sand and on the green soil of the hills, in the plains, on every little shrub, and also climbing toward the tops of high cedars - that, I think in all the world, the like abundance is not to be found."

With your vine, rooted from a cutting taken directly from The Mother Vine, you now own a part of America's living history. Indigenous to the southeastern United States, the Scuppernong is easy to plant, grow and maintain - especially in the South. Within 2 - 3 years, your vine can provide delicious and healthy fruit, shade, decorative yard and fence foliage - a focal point to initiate discussion about the only Elizabethan colonies in what is now the United States of America.