VERY Durable. I found this plant in my garden from one of the previous owners. Not sure how long its been there but I found it by the bea...Read Moreutiful purple flowers on a maple leafed, thorny stem. Unique! I thought I killed it, but found it reinvigorated this year creeping from beneath a half buried cinder block. Trying to take cuttings now to relocate elsewhere in my garden.
I live in Toronto, Ontario, we have lots of this here in woods. I grow them from seeds when weather is warm or indoors and semi-green wo...Read Moreod cuttings in late fall/early winter. So, it is not just able to grow this from seeds.
This is a good ornamental where you have enough space, especially on the edge of moist woodland.
The 2" fragrant rose-lik...Read Moree deep pink flowers are showy and produced over a long season. The fruit is also ornamental and is relished by wildlife. (It's edible---I find it bland and dry, but some people love it.) The canes have harmless hairs instead of sharp prickers.
Good shade tolerance.
Like all raspberries, it can spread fairly aggressively by suckering. Mature plants may be propagated by division. A good plant for wild areas.
Native from Maine to Wisconsin and south in the Appalachians to northern Alabama.
I came across this plant growing wild while camping out in Vermont many years ago. Not only was it very lovely but its raspberries, unli...Read Moreke most of those mentioned in the comments, were quite delicious! They were a bit different from standard raspberries -- aside from the dome shape, their flavor is hard to describe: raspberry but a bit more dry, brisk, and subtle -- a kind of "sophisticated," flavorful berry. Perhaps the quality of the flavor varies among these plants?
Seen along roadsides and then at a nursery for the cost of fifteen dollars, I thought this plant would add a bit of variety to my ever ...Read Morechanging garden landscape. I waited a year and the birds gifted me with this plant, located where I would have never have thought to plant it. It has since grown to five feet wide and three feet wide, burgeoning with blooms from June 15th to frost. It dies back in winter but the bare branches protect the north-west end of the porch from the incessantly strong winter and spring 5-50 mph. winds. The intense fushia-magenta blooms provide a welcome change of color and venue in the backdrop. This plant has many volunteers in the spring but they are easily discarded or transplanted in other locations with success if watered frequently.
This plant grows very fast and spreads like crazy! One unexpectedly started growing to fill an empty spot in our flower garden and new sh...Read Moreoots from underground kept on popping up. I had to prune this plant constantly. This plant is very beautiful though and looks good in our flower garden. The raspberries taste soooo good! We find these things wild all over Vermont.
I have plants growing at my house in NJ. from NC., VT., MA., PA. and NJ. They need plenty of water and do not grow well in pots. A pla...Read Morent I obtained from Tripple Brook Nursery had 126 flowers on a primocane in 3 bunches in July. The plant was 3 years old. It and the NC. plant had decent, but short lived flavor. Most plants have few flowers. I have seen none on 1 year old plants. The NC. plant was taller, later fruiting, and had a rounder fruit. Fruit falls off the day it ripens. Most plants are self-incompatible. If you want to see the fruit, you need 2 or more plants, preferably from different sources.
They do not have thorns but glans. They have a slight sticky feel when touched. The glans cover the buds giving a unique look. The leaves are simple, unlike most rubus species.
I am trying to do some breeding work with this species.
This plant grows wild all over the mountain peaks in the Catskills, where it is a harsh zone 4, considerably colder than above. It grows ...Read Morealongside roadsides at lower altitudes, and offers a spectacular sight. I grow it in deep shade in my garden, zone 4b, 2000 feet below the peaks. It flourishes in my soggy wet clay with no attention, except pruning of anything unruly. It is much prettier than raspberries grown for fruit, and the fruits themselves, while not worth eating, are very decorative. All the plants around here flower a radiant deep pink, sort of crude, but visible from a great distance. It does have thorns, but they are not too vicious.
Grow in full sun and shadow as well. Easy to propagate by divising in spring or fall. Grown in average soil as background for rudbeckia m...Read Moreix in full sun and with hosta & astilbe in shade.
Do flowers in both place, but incrase faster in sun. Do not seem to be invasive.
VERY Durable. I found this plant in my garden from one of the previous owners. Not sure how long its been there but I found it by the bea...Read More
I live in Toronto, Ontario, we have lots of this here in woods. I grow them from seeds when weather is warm or indoors and semi-green wo...Read More
This is a good ornamental where you have enough space, especially on the edge of moist woodland.
The 2" fragrant rose-lik...Read More
I came across this plant growing wild while camping out in Vermont many years ago. Not only was it very lovely but its raspberries, unli...Read More
Seen along roadsides and then at a nursery for the cost of fifteen dollars, I thought this plant would add a bit of variety to my ever ...Read More
This plant grows very fast and spreads like crazy! One unexpectedly started growing to fill an empty spot in our flower garden and new sh...Read More
I have plants growing at my house in NJ. from NC., VT., MA., PA. and NJ. They need plenty of water and do not grow well in pots. A pla...Read More
This plant grows wild all over the mountain peaks in the Catskills, where it is a harsh zone 4, considerably colder than above. It grows ...Read More
Grow in full sun and shadow as well. Easy to propagate by divising in spring or fall. Grown in average soil as background for rudbeckia m...Read More
Fruit is tasteless. This rambling shrub can reach up to 5 ft tall.