Black raspberries

Black raspberries, or blackcaps, are sweet, tiny, unusual fruits.

My black raspberries are fruiting. They’re the sort of plant that only suits a gardener who really likes to prowl around their plot and peer at everything, as the fruits are so tiny and perfectly-formed that they are easy to miss. But they’re lovely.

These berries are teeny-tiny but sweet and juicy with it. They have the same dry firm bodies as normal raspberries, and a raspberry, rather than blackberry flavour. I’ve moved them down from the allotment to the new garden, where they will scramble through the hedge, knitting it together and providing a good habitat for fauna. And they’ll help provide a bit of interest in winter: my hedges are deciduous, save an ugly block of leylandii, and so the garden can look rather bare come the winter months. Here are the beautiful colourful stems of my two black raspberries in winter.

I got these black raspberries from Kore Wild Fruit Nursery, who stock all kinds of weird and wonderful plants.