bramble

i want some wild bramble for my garden ,i read on the RSPB website
". When the tip of a stem droops to the ground, it takes root, sending up a new plant."
does this happen often in the wild or would i have to do it myself and come back to the same spot in say a week?

 

It happens all the time, I've got the proof in my back garden, they're a nuisance and I'm trying to kill them off.

This only happens if it's already attached to a 'mother' plant. So you will have to dig up a piece, roots attached and re-plant to start it off. It will take a while for it to establish.

Don't plant it near slatted fence panels as it will weave through and eventually break up the fence.

 

Ryan, why not try a cultivated, thornless variety? Much less invasive.

 

because it wont be native and plus i love the berries :D, there's a thornless red variety of it growing wild in the woods ,i would love to get some of that ,but i don't know if it's the same it seems more "shrubish"

 

Of course they are native, they were bred in Britain for goodness sake. Don`t know where the red one came from, it is obviously NOT a Blackberry.:WINK1:

 

fine :p i'll get a boring old thornless one ,but i think i'll go for red rather than black berry ,good point it's can't be a black berry .......... whatever it is it's nice to eat ,i was picking them yesterday in the woods whilst i was out ,that is what was left ,most of them had been eaten by the birds

 

Ryan, I am just trying to protect you from brambles. If you shop around you may still be able to get hold of a cultivared THORNED variety.

 

If you can find the variety Fantasia, you will be in your element.:D

 

it would be potted ,don't know if that would control it or not ,

 

Posts crossed there, Check my post above yours.

 

i'll have a look for it
thanks for the help

 

Ryan a local nursery to me stocks some rare and sought after plants; check out some of the ornamental brambles they stock (some are currently out of stock) :thumb:;

BlueBell Nursery - BlueBell Nursery - Trees & Shrubs - Rubus

 

The one in the woods could be a loganberry perhaps. We've got a few around here.