Re: Snowberry

I don't have any experience growing snowberry, but it is wild on my
property. Along with a lot of our other wild shrubs (list below), it
is rhizomatous, so I have to rip it out when it moves too far into
the garden.  I wouldn't plant it in any small area - I have a half
acre, and I keep a big chunk of it native.

Other shade shrubs native in my yard, all rhizomatous, all with edible berries.
Oregon grape - Mahonia nervosa
Salal - Gaultheria shallon
Saskatoon - Amelanchier alnifolia
Salmonberry - Rubus spectabilis
Thimbleberry - Rubus parviflorus

These all grow in shade, under bigleaf maples, with big cedar trees
providing shade in the winter when the maples are bare.  They are
much handsomer plants than the Snowberry, which has scruffy looking
leaves, but you are right about the snowberry keeping its berries
during the winter, while the edible berries don't last long.


Anyone have any experience growing Symphoricarpos albus or related species?
I'm wondering how much sun it needs to flower (and produce berries).



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Diane Whitehead  Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
maritime zone 8
cool mediterranean climate (dry summer, rainy winter - 68 cm annually)
sandy soil

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