Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online
Okay the title is clickbait some of the berries were planted and there will be some non berry fruit too because I am an anarchist.
Please do not expect responses to pedantry about common names in the comments. I encourage you to share what you call what you see, but insisting on 1-to-1 matching of a common names to scientific name is foolish at best.
Back deck
We did not put these here. There are at least two types of Rubus, and they are even poking up through the deck in places. Delicious!
Garbage shed/pea gravel/driveway
The pea gravel (pre-existing) has been colonized by strawberries. I believe these ones are wild. The fruit are tiny and sweet. We get one or two a year as they are very popular.
There are one or more Rubus popping up by our garbage shed/junk heap and some of the plants what extend on to the driveway are diseased or stressed or something. This year may be the year I finally move all the wood chips away from the fence. After that I will keep this area more tidy and clear, and build a new shed to keep the garbage/recycling in that hopefully keeps out the messy assholes that ravage them.
You can also see some nightshades there. Don’t eat those berries.
Front yard:
We’ve got some Rubus popping up along a fence where we have some sour cherries and sand cherries, as well as some shade perennials. I remove these then I weed the area but haven’t done that for a few weeks.
Sometimes the Rubus pretend to be other plants. Here, they are cosplaying as pansies.
For some reason I have wild grapes on my lawn too. I hazard a guess that they are Vitis riparia.
This is an alpine currant (Ribes) planted here as an understory companion to the crabapple (pre-existing). Neither of those two are for people food, but there is a lot of strawberry down there too.
This collage is two photos of the same sour cherry. We’ve just let the two cultivars we planted (Juliet and Crimson Passion) spread. You can see the new growth on the left side of the right photo: the leaves are more yellow.
Bonus photo of what it looked like when we planted it:
They have had good years and bad, and needed constant attention in the second year, but it’s paying off.
Next is another Ribes, which I think is getting harvested today. It’s in a guild with the Winter Banana (apple). It is also apparently a toilet.
There is a white ribes with the honey crisp, but neither are thriving this year. I think the ornamental rhubarb sucked the life out of them. It’s taller than I am (not pictured).
A cherry may be moving in too:
Here is the cover photo again, with the Thimble Berry hanging out with the loosestrife.
I think it’s Rubus occidentalis but I think we can understand why these are called thimble berries also:
Next up we have groundcherries, which you might know as gooseberries but I know them as things that look very cool but do not taste good. These are volunteers from plants we had years ago that just keep self seeding in different places. I didn’t notice any volunteer tomatillos this year but those are cool too.
This year they decided to hang out with the lupines and poppies.
Back yard: Maple tree
There are at least three types of Rubes here, including a different thimbleberry lol (Rubus odoratus). I think my partner tried transplanting some canes here on a whim but I don’t think three different kinds…
Here is another Ribes and the choke me daddy bush (choke cherry). Both were planted.
Where we actually planned the berries
It’s really hard to capture just how thicc the berries are.
This photo has two types of elderberry (Scotia and York), a Logan Berry, Lingonberry, two raspberries (heritage red and Nova red), two blueberries, wild and cultivar strawberries and a Gooseberry (ribes).
This is the gooseberry that got porcupined to death. Maybe there is still life in the roots.
This is a collage of various strawberry clumps which act as ground cover. I remove it from many places be I want a clear place to walk, but I don’t need to walk everywhere…
The following collages should be pretty self explanatory:
One of two Saskatoon berries:
Another Ribes! And a service berry! And a ground nut! It’s blurry but I am too lazy to go back out.
High bush cranberry which we planted last year when we gave up on finding a service berry that we could fit in the car.
Two blueberries and a Lingonberry! Plus a loganberry and some strawberries that just showed up.
Four haskcap cultivars, because they need to be cross pollinated. We don’t get many of them lol.
Things we did not plant there: backyard edition
Elderberry, loganberry and Rubes that hopped the fence:
Rubes peaking out from the Spotted Touch Me Nots:
(Wild) Dogwood trying to blend in with the Rubes but didn’t know they were a compound berry…
Various berries gentrifying the tomatoes beds after the groundhogs obliterated them
More wild grape, but clearly creeping in from the neighbours yard. It has replaced the wild cucumber that was there a few years ago. This is much nicer.
This elderberry thinks it is garlic:
I hand weeded this bed of Rubes in the spring. I was gonna put some diakon there. How silly of me.
I hope you enjoyed this tour berry much.