This is a plant that can be grown in a tub if it is given protection from the cold. It grows fast and is covered with purple, velvety, edible fruits that are as attractive in the landscape as they are delicious on the table. Ceylon GooseberryĬeylon gooseberry is a shrubby, spiny tropical plant that can grow up to about 15 feet (5 m) tall in locations that don’t get winter frost. They are a great plant for attracting bumblebees. But they are winter hardy all the way to USDA hardiness zone 3. They wilt in temperatures above 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius). Blueberries are fussy about acidic soil (they prefer a pH below 5.5) and getting an even supply of summer water, not too much, never drying out. I never had a lot of success growing blueberries as a garden plant, but I always enjoyed them as a landscape plant. But it is susceptible to fungal diseases in warm, humid weather.
GRIFTLANDS LEAVES BERRIES FLOWERS FULL
It grows on almost any soil, in shade, and in full sun. You have to try hard to fail at growing a blackthorn. The nectar and pollen are an abundant source of food for bees and hummingbirds. Its spiny branches provide shelter for birds to raise their fledglings, and its leaves provide fodder for caterpillars. Blackthornīlackthorn is a tree for the birds and the bees and the butterflies. Black gojiberry survives winters as cold as those in USDA hardiness zone 4 but needs partial sage protection from summer heat when temperatures exceed 85 degrees Fahrenheit (29 degrees Celsius). Grow seedings in pots the first year and transplant them outdoors the next spring. Like many other plants from Tibet, this berry requires full sun but thrives in dry soils.
I’ll leave the evidence for medicinal applications for another time, but this berry is also a nice backdrop for fall garden plantings. Its black berries are used for everything from treating hormonal complaints to treating blindness in camels. This is the popular health food also known as the Tibetan gojiberry.or Hei Guo Gou Qi. About 20 percent of the land mass of Sweden is covered in bilberries, but even if you live in a more temperate climate (up to about USDA hardiness zone 6), you can grow bilberries in shaded locations with regular irrigation and sulfur or peat moss to maintain acidity. Bilberries favor moist, acidic, nutrient depleted soils. They are hard to grow and the fruit is small - but delicious. You can think of a bilberry as a cool-climate, even sub-arctic blueberry. Beautyberry is a good understory plant for dappled shade. People can eat beautyberries, too, but the taste is “medicinal.” Beautyberries prefer deep, rich, organic soil, but they can grow and fruit in any well-drained soil with lots of water. The problem in Central Texas is that this delicious berry also feeds armadillos, opossums, foxes, squirrel, and deer, which aren’t good friends of well-tended gardens. I have grown beautyberries in Central Texas and in North Carolina to feed robins, mockingbirds, finches, and woodpeckers. Winter protection isn’t needed, and there is some strain of Amelanchier that works for every USDA hardiness zone in climates ranging from central Saskatchewan to Hawaii. It’s one of about 20 species of low-growing cold-tolerant plants in the rose family. Amelanchier is a beloved landscape shrub in Canada, where it is also known as shadwood, shadbush, saskatoon, chuckley pear, wild plum, and serviceberry.
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