The highlights
- Deep, rich blackberry flavour
- Compact and perfect for container growing
- Conjure up a batch of blackberry blondies
- Harvest from July to September
Description
- What a beautiful pastoral scene it is to pick your own blackberries straight from the farm hedgerow – except for that fact that you might well tear your arm to shreds on all those pesky, prickly thorns… With ‘Tiny Black’, though? That’s not a problem!
- Completely thornless canes bear an abundance of delicious, juicy blackberries from the middle to the end of summer (and even into September)
- The plant’s bushy, serrated foliage is a lovely mid to dark green in spring and summer, before typically taking on more fiery hues in the autumn months
- With a naturally neat and compact habit, this blackberry variety is ideal for container growing in small gardens, on patios and even on balconies
- If you can resist eating the berries fresh from the stems – and if you can’t, we don’t blame you – then you can freeze the surplus to be used in crumbles, pies and jams throughout the year to come
- Rubus fruticosus (the blackberry’s latin name) is certified as one of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Plants for Pollinators; bees and butterflies are attracted to the plant’s nectar, birds like thrushes love the berries and small mammals like dormice often seek shelter amidst the brambles
