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Harvest the First Year!
PRIME ARK® FREEDOM THORNLESS
Make way for the new thornless
primocane blackberry. Prime Ark®
Freedom. This unique upright, free
standing primocane blackberry bears ON
FIRST YEAR CANES. It ripens large crops
of delicious sweet fruit in late summer. For
some 30 years gardeners have enjoyed
primocane raspberries. Now, as you do with the primocane
everbearing raspberries, allow the blackberries to grow for a
season. Then each winter cut the canes just above the ground
and allow them to grow back. Each late summer and early
fall, simply harvest the fruit. If you wish, like the raspberries,
you can allow the canes to grow for a second year and they
will also produce a crop in early summer. Prime Ark® Freedom
thrives in the Pacific NW and as far north as central Minnesota
and New York. It is a low chill selection, however it doesn’t
produce well in places like the deep South, where summer
temperatures are consistently above 90°F. Plants are hardy in
the winter to 10°F or below zero if cut back to the ground and
heavily mulched. Prime Ark® Freedom is the fourth release from
University of Arkansas’s primocane breeding program. 4-inch
pot. E574: $8.50 each, 6+: $6.50 each
Enjoy Delicious Marion Flavor
BLACK DIAMOND THORNLESS (NZ9128-R) This thornless
selection was bred in New Zealand and introduced by Oregon
State University in 2005. It is disease resistant, easy to grow,
very productive and firm and is prized for making jams. It has
Marionberry-like flavor but with larger, firmer and of course
thornless berries. Harvest for up to a month each July. USDA
Zones 6-9. 4-inch pot. E573: $11.50
each
MARIONBERRY Although thorny,
Marionberry has such an incredible,
rich flavor that many people prefer
it to any other berry for eating out
of hand and for making superb pies,
jellies or juices. Plants consistently
produce heavy crops of high quality
fruit starting in July and continuing
for several weeks. USDA Zones 7-9.
4-inch pot. E572: $8.50 each, 6+:
$6.50 each
Start Your Blackberry Season Early
COLUMBIA STAR THORNLESS A new star for flavor. New
from Oregon State University, it has large firm berries and
is very productive. The flavor is rated as good or better than
Marionberry. This vigorous growing thornless trailer ripens
early mid season, in mid July in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.
It is hardy to below 10°F. and highly recommended for home
gardens as well as for machine picking by commercial growers.
Patent pending. 4-inch pots. E530: $11.50 each, 6+: $8.50
each
Early Ripeners Mid Season Late Ripeners
Obsidian Boysenberry Loch Ness
Loganberry Marionberry Prime Ark Freedom
Apache Ouachita Chester
Wild Treasure Black Diamond Onyx
Natchez
Columbia Star
Tayberry
Cascade Trailing
Cascade
Triple Crown
Newberry
Super Flavor Later in the Season
ONYX TRAILING NEW! Onyx is a new trailing blackberry from
the OSU breeding program in Corvallis, OR. It was selected
for its superior flavor in the late season. Onyx is a vigorous,
somewhat erect, thorny, trailing blackberry that produces
moderate yields of uniform, firm, and sweet very high-quality
fruit. 4-inch pot. E557: $11.50 each, 6+: $8.50 each
Wild Berries Tamed
WILD TREASURE THORNLESS An
incredible find from Oregon State University
researchers, the wild meets the thornless.
This first generation cross between the
wild Cascade trailing blackberry and the
thornless Waldo blackberry combines the
best qualities of both. The berries, which are smaller than Waldos
but bigger than Cascades, are so sweet, delicious and numerous
that they have amazed and won every tasting panel. The selffertile,
early ripening plants are vigorous, disease tolerant and
thornless. Wild Treasure is prized for fresh eating and baking.
Wild Treasure retains excellent flavor of the wild berry and has the
highest nutritional content of all the blackberries we offer. USDA
Zones 7-9. 4-inch pot. E545: $11.50 each, 6+: $8.50 each
CASCADE TRAILING (Rubus ursinus) Every summer from Alaska
to Northern California, fruit lovers in the know pick and trip over
these sweet, especially tasty, native trailing blackberries. We offer a
selection found by Mike Maki that is among the biggest and sweetest
ever found, although still small. Grow them on a trellis, so they won’t
be underfoot and so you can pick lots of fruit which is otherwise only
available in the wild and fetches a very high price! We offer female
plants that need to be pollinized. Unless you have a wild trailing male
in the neighborhood, also plant Tayberry or Cascade. USDA Zones
7-9. 4-inch pot. E520: $8.50 each, 6+: $6.50 each
CASCADE Thought to be a cross between Loganberry and
wild Cascade trailing blackberry (which it will pollinate), this
berry was a very popular backyard crop 40 years ago, but it has
long since been unavailable. Many still ask for it, because of an
unmatched wild trailing blackberry flavor, higher productivity.
and much larger size. Fruit ripens in July. USDA Zones 7-9.
4-inch pot. E515: $8.50 each, 6+: $6.50 each
Delicious Raspberry/Blackberry Crosses
BOYSENBERRY A distinctly tart, juicy cross
between blackberry and red raspberry, these
large, red-black berries mature at up to 2 inches
long. The harvest of delicious, aromatic fruit
continues to ripen for up to two months. Try
eating them fresh with cream or baking into a
spectacular pie — exceptional. Trellis the trailing,
vigorous canes. USDA Zones 6-10. 4-inch pot.
E510: $11.50 each, 6+: $8.50 each
NEWBERRYA vigorous and highly productive semi-erect
purple blackberry producing especially large fruit with a unique
and highly rated flavor. It is a cross of blackberries and red
raspberries and resembles Boysen in appearance but has its
own flavor. Tested from Northwestern Washington to California,
it is among the most winter-hardy cultivars. It is yet to be
extensively tested elsewhere in the country. 4-inch pot. E542:
$8.50 each, 6+: $6.50 each
THORNLESS LOGANBERRY The thornless Logan is thought
to be a wild cross between a blackberry and a red raspberry.
Plants are only about half as productive as either Marionberry
or Tayberry. The large, flavorful fruit has a unique quality that is
highly prized. Many people prefer the flavor to all others. USDA
Zones 6-10. 4” pot. E560: $8.50 each, 6+: $6.50 each
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