Soft Fruits > Hybrid Berries
A late variety, with thick stalks for pulling outdoors later in the season, a very popular old variety that crops well into the summer. Plant 2 to 3' apart.
Varieties and Pricing
Excellent when grown as ground cover or can be trained on wires in the normal way. The fruits are black with a fine bloom, good, delicate flavour. Very popular in America. Not a hybrid, but a distinct species.
The erect stems have pinnate leaves and produce clusters of large, attractive, white flowers, The late summer fruits that follow are very large, bright red and juicy. Excellent, sweet flavour that is very pleasing. A strawberry/raspberry cross that should be grown like you would a shrub. Requires no support and
One of the prettiest cane fruits you can grow. The berries are bright orange, turning to crimson when fully ripe, with an unusual grape-like flavour. The canes are an attractive red colour in winter, a very handsome plant that can be used to good effect as an ornamental climber in
See Blackcurrants.
Large, red fruits turning to a dark wine/purple colour when mature. Excellent flavour. Serve with cream for dessert or makes really delicious preserves. The fruits are larger then those of a blackberry, juicy and not too seedy. Making a large plant, the boysenberry is hardy and extremely resistant to drought.
Probably a cross between a phenomenal and a dewberry, the fruit resembles a boysenberry, ripening to purple with an excellent loganberry type flavour. A heavy crop of large fruit that is excellent for dessert freezing and all purposes. The juicy fruits have a minimum of seeds and are very easy
A cross between a blackberry and a raspberry. Deep wine red fruit. Very heavy cropping.
See under gooseberries.
