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"Cat" writes:
| A query from someone re. huckleberry puts me in mind of another berry I am
| anxious to give a go to.
| It's the cloudberry - Rubus chamaemorus - with which I fell in love in a pot
| of jam enjoyed in Finland last year. It's like a low growing yellow
| raspberry, and to say that the jam is divine is an understatement.
| I have found a nursery in Scotland which will ship plantlets for a not
| outrageous cost, but if anyone here has any experience in growing them, I
| really would welcome their input!

This came up recently. Remember that they are plants of the far
north, and so like cool conditions. If I recall, they also like
damp, acid, poor but humus-rich soil.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.