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Mar 2020
9:13am, 23 Mar 2020
15,389 posts
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Rosehip
Amalanchier/Juneberry now on my wish list 
my garden is too small for half of what I'd like - but there are plenty of hedgerows and scrubland areas that I forage - hoping no-one else knows where the wild bullaces are
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Mar 2020
10:50am, 23 Mar 2020
2,881 posts
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jacdaw
Amelanchier lamarckii is an all year rounder; nice flowers, attractive berries, leaves that are attractive in the autumn. And not too big?
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Mar 2020
10:53am, 23 Mar 2020
2,882 posts
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jacdaw
Bob Flowerdew has A. canadensis in his complete fruit book.
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Mar 2020
1:52pm, 23 Mar 2020
12,221 posts
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Garfield
That's an impressive collection Hanneke!!
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Mar 2020
8:40pm, 23 Mar 2020
70,525 posts
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Hanneke
Sorbus domestica, I knew I had forgotten one!
There is great confusion about these. Sorbus domestica is NOT sorbus torminalis or wild service and also NOT amelanchier. Although the fact that they are all also called service tree makes it mighty confusing... It is why really we should always use latin names
Amelanchire berries are extremely edible, if you can beat the birds My dad had two of them and I was always eating the berries as a kid.
The persimmon has been planted last November as a 1 year old whips. Fruit will be a few years off. Mind you, the medlar fruited in its second year!
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Mar 2020
9:09pm, 23 Mar 2020
70,526 posts
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Hanneke
Oh and regarding the mulberry: I have a tree. It has been with me since 2014. They take 10-15 years before they fruit. I had one berry last year! I also have a mulberry bush. I have berries off those, but not quite the same as from a tree.
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Mar 2020
8:01am, 24 Mar 2020
25,941 posts
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Wriggling Snake
I am very happy with the way my strawberries are coming on in their planters now it is warming up. I found a few small plants on my compost heap (ok, guilty I am not great at sifting through what I bung on my compost heap), last year I put them in one of my raised beds late in the year and took a load of runners, now I have about 40 plants.
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Mar 2020
6:32pm, 24 Mar 2020
70,527 posts
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Hanneke
Fab WS! I planted runners underneath my new soft fruit shrubs last year. This year, I need to completely re-fresh my old strawberry area. At least I know I will have fruit from last years plants!
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Mar 2020
6:36pm, 24 Mar 2020
25,958 posts
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Wriggling Snake
Yes, that's the thing with Strawberies, you have to continually replenish the plants, and soil, and perhaps even move them about, so we will see how the planters go. In my old house I used to have a Strawberry patch, next to the Rhubarb and Apple trees. I used to get a guy who kept chickens to pass me his manure, it was powerful stuff for fruit. I used to have to bury it in another part of the garden and let it calm down a bit before applying mid-winter. I haven't got such a local chicken keeper locally, yet!
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Mar 2020
6:51pm, 24 Mar 2020
1,604 posts
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Flatlander
Someone gave me several rooted raspberry canes a couple of years ago which I planted. They have not done very well and have struggled to grow.
This week, I've been clearing ground to plant my potatoes and was pleasantly surprised to discover lots of healthy growth and the raspberry plants have multiplied. They obviously needed time to feel at home
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