Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: mark smyth on June 18, 2007, 12:00:14 AM
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I'm not sure if this is a Blackberry or a Raspberry. It grows as a small domed plant no more than knee high. The flowers are huge and face down or at an angle
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Yum Yum :) Let's see the whole plant Mark.
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sorry no close photo just this rubbish one. Hopefully Heather took a photo of the whole plant. It's the green plant in front of the Acer
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A little sidetrack with Rubus: here is a link to a little piece about a lovely Rubus cultivar, raised by SRGC favourite, Bob Gordon of Portglenone, County Antrim, and named for his late wife, Margaret.....
http://www.habitas.org.uk/gardenflora/rubus_tridel.htm
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That looks nice Mark. Maybe it will grow wider than high.
Maggi thanks for that link. `Margaret' is certainly a glorious thing (as is Maggi of course). I was particularly interested because R. x Tridel `Benendon' is one of my most favourite things and also because Bob Gordon's plant is said to be a seedling from `Benendon.' My understanding is that `Benendon' is quite sterile (mine has never looked like having a seed) and it was only because I swore on my life just about, that it IS sterile, that I was able to import it many years ago. It's widespread in NZ gardens now, all cutting grown from my original importation.