Hiking last year in La Tuna Canyon, as my guide identified the streamside plants that we passed, I was gripped by a craving that only the late-winter mention of an early summer fruit can provoke. At ...

Introducing 'Natchez', the twelfth release in a series of erect-growing, high-quality, productive, floricane-fruiting blackberry (Rubus L. subgenus Rubus Watson) cultivars. 'Natchez' produces large ...

Blackberries, salmonberries and thimbleberries are commonly found in Marin County. There are two blackberry species, one native and one non-native. Our native blackberry, Rubus ursinus, has three ...

We see blackberry brambles growing along country roads in Marin. We may also see them up in a neighbor’s unkempt yard. The native species is Rubus ursinus. The non-native and invasive species is ...