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» Jojo - Hi Kirk Hi KirkAn excellent article, and as usual I really enjoyed all your links. My favourite plants for edible landscaping are berries. I have a nice growing collection of Ribes relatives including black currant, red currant, Jostaberry and gooseberries. They're very pretty in flower and on some, the fall colour is nice. The black currant is most ornamental though, dripping with clusters of black berries in late summer. The berries make very nice additions to jams and also rhubarb pie. High, medium and lowbush blueberries are very nice in edible landscaping, and they fit the garden with no formal lines. The fall colour is amazing on some varieties! I have a few varieties of lowbush that I got from Blueberry Hill in Ontario. I have been very pleased with the results. For Canadians, send $2 for catalog to BLueberry Hill, RR1, Maynooth ONT, K0L 2S0. I have found lowbush very difficult to get here in the West, but with my growing stock and propagation capabilities I hope to change that one day because they really are excellent plants. Raspberries grown in the traditional 'wired' manner are a little too controlled for most landscapes, but they actually make nice specimens on their own. If left to it's own devices, a rapsberry plant will form a vase-shaped shrub, much like a forsythia. There are wild salmonberries here doing just that. Last year I thinned out some old canes and now new ones are coming. That's all you have to do with raspberries as well. They take up alot of room and produce less per square foot, but actually they look very nice in a Bilbo Baggins 'thicket' kind of way. A few more links... I think figs are highly ornamental. Read about mountain ash and other edibles at Edible Wild Plants on Suite101.com All tolled, I'm sure I end up feeding the birds with all these berries around, but it sure feels complete and I don't have to worry about my garden appearing frivolous! -- posted by Jojo » Kirk_Johnson - Blueberries Blueberries have beautiful fall coloring in my garden on the southern Oregon coast. We have very mild falls, warm and wet, so they should color well in colder climates.-- posted by Kirk_Johnson » Kirk_Johnson - Purple Cabbage The ornamental cabbages tend to bolt in my garden, but regular cabbages last all winter. I just harvested my purple cabbages today. They were quite colorful.How would they be to fill in bare spots during the winter? -- posted by Kirk_Johnson » Kirk_Johnson - Cabbages I think that I planted the cabbages in September, but it may have been earlier than that. they were from 6 packs that I bought at a nursery.-- posted by Kirk_Johnson
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