Hardy Berries and Currants: Fall Field Notes

sinensis sea buckthorn, wow they ripen and hang late and taste excellent off the tree even in early winter

sweet and tart like frozen...

nannyberry can hang late going into fall

they're like raisons, but I still like to eat them off the tree, around the large flat seed they have the most unique woody...

alpine strawberries fruiting into october

small and tasty fruit on these. we have a few left in our fall sale...

Canadian gooseberry grown from seed, Ribes oxyacanthoides

These seedlings got to a decent size in small pots this year. They’re going into a bed as mother plants for next year. super...

black wellington currant

they get this size one year in the ground, p+1 so calling it 2 yr old plant...

grafting sea buckthorn is tricky, but possible

Here’s a fruiting branch grafted last spring from chinese sea buckthorn, H. sinensis onto a male H. rhamnoides , probably Indian Summer a shelterbelt seed strain. Sinesis gets...

alpine strawberry can have this cool elongated shape

fun to see the seedlings fruiting, I started these around the end of...

anyone know what these are

seeds are like a rugulose stone fruit, weird seeds, not barberry. super sour, like an intense cranberry...

these are jahn’s prairie, a gooseberry selection but not the usual species, it’s Ribes oxyacanthoides our native

Canadian Gooseberry. Only have a few this year so will probably just put them in with the stock...

this is why I get excited about gooseberries

Black velvet is a hybrid between the common European gooseberry and Worcesterberry. The range of interesting species in some cultivars is so cool, not to mention the history, the different leaves...

nannyberry starting to ripen, they’ll turn blue this month and taste delicious off the tree

nannyberry starting to ripen, they’ll turn blue this month and taste delicious off the tree. these are a native shrub in the viburnum genus, related to highbush cranberry. they set fruit in the same way, you might...

a large sea buckthorn, not sure which species - much larger than Hippophae rhamnoides, also later ripening

Could be Chinese sea buckthorn Hippophae sinensis, but a friend with an orchard says his ripen end of Sept. Large fruit, a bit sparse this year, tasty...

collecting some late hanging #nannyberry … even though these are overripe they taste good, sweet with a woody grape

taste and just a small amount of fruit...

this **cotoneaster had unusual fruiting that hugged the stems in long strings, large fruit and more productive

than the other bushes. **edited, originally...

barberry, a shrub covered in these racemes of bright red edible fruit

highbush cranberry seeds drying

silver buffaloberry still full of fruit, they’re just as good a month after ripening

fairy bells

like fuzzy marshmallows and edible. (Prosartes trachycarpa) Found a few of these along side the bunch berries on a hiking trail at...