25 TRAILING BLACKBERRY Pacific Rubus Ursinus Vining Shrub Fruit Berry Seeds

Highlights

– Materials: seeds, ziplock poly bag, labeled with color photo, plant stats, planting instructions

Description:
– Name: Trailing Blackberry
– Other common names: California Blackberry, California Dewberry, Douglas Berry, Pacific Blackberry, Pacific Dewberry
– Scientific name: Rubus Ursinus
– Color: White flowers, dark purple to black berries
– Plant seeds: Fall sow seeds or cold stratify
– Bloom time: flowers in spring
– Harvest: harvest fruit summer to fall
– Hardiness zone: 3 – 8
– Plant height: 24 – 60 inches
– Plant spacing: 72 inches
– Light requirements: sun
– Soil & water preferences: average
– Quantity: 25 seeds
– Other: The Trailing Blackberry is native to Western North America. It is a vining shrub with evergreen leaves, fragrant flowers, and delicious edible fruit. The blackberry fruit is aromatic and sweet, and grows to almost an inch long. The juicy berries can be enjoyed fresh, dried, or added to an endless list of desserts or dishes. This particular variety of blackberry is so delicious, it was chosen as the parent plant of both the loganberry and boysenberry. Additionally, the Trailing Blackberry plant is also valuable to many types of wildlife. It serves as a host plant for Swallowtail and Mourning Cloak butterflies, provides pollen and nesting material for bees, and offers a nesting haven for birds and a shelter for other small animals like squirrels and chipmunks. The berries are favored by birds and various woodland creatures.