Blackberry Plants
Blackberries are easy to grow in borders or containers and these heavy-cropping varieties are perfect for pies, crumbles and smoothies. They’ve got larger fruits and fewer thorns than their wild cousins, making them easy to pick and delicious to eat. Our bare root and potted blackberry plants are UK grown in natural conditions (outdoors - that’s why they’re so strong) by a family of growers with over a hundred years’ experience. That’s a lot of crumble…
Which blackberry is best for you?
All of our blackberry varieties have been selected for their sweet, rich flavour but for the biggest crop, choose the twice-life-sized Black Butte, which produces kilograms of fruit each summer. For smaller spaces, a compact blackberry variety like Waldo or Loch Ness will yield great results. They can be grown in pots and as an added bonus, they’re thornless.
Growers' tips
Blackberry plants need very little care - just regular watering and weeding. They thrive on the UK’s summer climate of warm days and cool nights, and produce fruit from the first year. Blackberries will famously grow anywhere, but for the best results choose a sunny spot in your garden with well drained soil and plenty of support for the rambling stems to twine around - a wall or fence is perfect.
Using your blackberries
It wouldn’t be autumn without blackberry crumble - get yours without the scratched arms by picking them from your own garden. Cultivated varieties are much sweeter, so you can cut down on the sugar. Or not. Apple is the classic pairing, but blackberries also go well with raspberries in a smoothie, pears in a cobbler and with the whole range of soft fruits in a summer pudding. If (when) you get a super heavy crop, why not try making your own jam?
A fantastic, compact Blackberry with impressively large fruit
- Compact variety, perfect for small spaces
- Can even been grown in a container
- Produces one of the largest Blackberries you are likely to find
- Flavour really is stunning too
Award winning variety with the most excellent flavour
- Prized for its intense flavour
- Reliable, compact and heavy cropping
- Thornless, making harvesting and pruning less painful
- Self fertile and happy in partial shade as well as sun
It's an absolute unit.
- Twice the size of average blackberries
- Packed full of rich, sweet flavour
- Expect to see several kilograms of fruit each summer
- Self fertile and happy in partial shade as well as sun
Larger than average berries with a long cropping season
- Large juicy berries up to 7.5cm long
- Harvest from June to September
- Grow in a sunny border
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