tried them here 4 years ago. pretty plant but very few berries and spread like wildfire so i axed them. it was a improved one from oikios.
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I have Blueberries, Blackberries, Raspberries, Strawberries, Persimmons,Grape, Muscadine,Mulberry,Elderberry, & Figs. Also Buffalo berry, Silverweed,Snowbush, Black Huckleberry,Black Gooseberry, Lingonberry. We have Sassafras, Black Cherry, Deer berries growing wild on the property.
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We have algerita. Rather tart to eat raw. Most people use them for jelly, though some can use the juice to make algertia margaritas.
The blooms smell so fragrant.
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Maybe not unusual for this forum, but anytime I mention to civilians that I grow haskaps I’m met with blank stares.
I also have a pin cherry volunteer that started growing last year. Makes tiny but quite edible cherries.
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Thats a cool plant. Never heard of it before.
I had never heard of them before joining this forum, so that doesn’t surprise me. Everyone here makes them sound so good, but they don’t look like they are on the cards to grow here.
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I saw haskaps for the first time less than five years ago. But they do seem to be growing in popularity rather quickly.
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I grow schisandra a.k.a magnolia wine. It is more a medicinal / tea berry, not something to munch on.
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i have them too and agree they arent very tasty and border on invasive. spreading more and more. i think ill remove it and put another arctic kiwi there.
I actually like them 
and wish they fruited better.
Those are very pretty. Remind me of like tassle berries but bigger and not tasty. The foliage is pretty too!
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Mine are sparse fruiters as well. how do you use them?
I chew some of them fresh (I was the weird kid who snacked on spruce needles), but mostly dry and grind them to make tea.
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Thimbleberries can be very tasty, but they turn to mush and are often very dry. And generally a small number of fruit per plant.
Salmonberries are very pretty and they look like they would be tasty, but I’ve never had one that was actually good. My kids love them, they grow all over here, but they just taste like bland vegetal mush to me.
Osoberries are one that can be very tasty if they are good specimens grown with enough sun exposure and picked just right. They can also be nasty and bitter, though, so very hit or miss. I started a thread for them awhile back but still haven’t gotten around to growing any myself (the local wildlife love to eat the seedling sprouts when I’ve tried planting seeds):
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Salmonberries have grown on me. Their flavor varies a lot and is often pretty bland like you say, but when I find a good patch I’ll eat a bunch. The taste seems linked to growing conditions - I think they need pretty good soil and the right mix of sun and shade. Even good ones have the faintly bitter, faintly vegetal quality, but that’s the part that grew on me. They’re less intense and more refreshing than other PNW wild berries, especially compared to our super tart huckleberries.
My son and I made a pie once with a mix of mostly salmonberry with some thimbleberry, blackcap raspberry and grouse huckleberry, and it was amazing. Something about that blend of flavors was especially great.
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Do any of you PNW people eat salal berries? I’ve heard they can be good, growing in a sunny spot with regular water.
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They’re good. Nice flavor, not as sour as huckleberries. The trick is finding them properly ripe as they need some warm dry weather to ripen up well, but then they dry up pretty quickly.
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Yes, I like salal berries. They are all over the place. I like salmonberries and huckleberries too.
I have been eating a lot of himalayan huckleberries (not closely related). They taste like coffee with sugar in it. They are somewhat weird, but I am from Portland, so it’s normal to me.
John S
PDX OR
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Acquired this berry that was bred by a local. The berries grow in clusters ripening from the top middle berry out. Slightly under ripe they taste like a homegrown red grapefruit, fully ripe they get a fantastic deep sweet blackberry flavor. This trellis is between logan and marion berries and the birds will ignore them and completely mob these “Boynton” berries.
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Those look really good. Do you think they are a blackberry or a cross? Those are huge clusters. My osage did not have big clusters like that.
It is claimed to be a cross, the breeder would not reveal the parents and passed shortly after i received the plants. Their clusters are highly unusual and crazy prolific, definitely prized in our home. Edited to add the canes are thornless. Such a blessing lol
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