denni:

Thanks for the input! I found a place to order Kiwi Gold. Also ordered about 12 others including most you mentioned. They are so cheap might as well try a lot. I'll whittle down to the ones I really like. I can get plenty of chilling and will place them in the coolest spot in the greenhouse, next to the evaporative cooler pad.

Will be interesting to see how late the everbearing continue to fruit in an environment where it never freezes. And I need more fall fruit.

Several of my fall bearers have a fairly extended season on the primocanes -- they begin to flower late July/early August, fruit starts ripening mid-August and persists generally until late October/early November. I picked a few small handfulls of blackberries and raspberries around the 8th of November this year due to the extremely mild fall with minimal frost we had here this year.

Well, if it's the best tasting raspberry your looking for. My vote goes to Rossana. After tasting Rossana, which is a red, I don't consider anything else a raspberry.

But, be warned orange rust like them more then I do. It's very hard to grow them here in our part of Connecticut without a spray program for orange rust.

I don't like spraying. But, in my mind they are well worth the extra effort of spraying. They are sold by Rain Tree nursery.

Hope that helps

Bob, Connecticut zone 5

Bob:

Thanks for that tip, just what I'm looking for!!!! An Italian raspberry!! I found an old post or two on Rosanna. Seems it's hard to grow but high quality fruit, just my type. I probably won't have any disease problems in the greenhouse.

We have some that are supposed to be autumn bliss...huge fantasric flavored aromatic berries. But when I got some more from a different and more reputable source to extend the row....not quite the same thing. The second batch are smaller and slightly later ripening.
The better (earlier berries) don't put out alot of fruit, but it's just so good. I suspect they are one of the sister varieties to autumn bliss, as there are so few everberarers that will work this far north.

I guess this isn't very helpful....

Norse in Ma is a extremely reputable source for berry plants

I had red raspberries at my old house.
Summer Bearing/Floricane: Canby, Latham, and Prelude
Fall bearing/ Primocane: Caroline and Anne (yellow).

My favorites - also my husband's - were Anne and Caroline. Anne was less productive but the berries were huge and had a really unique fruity flavor, almost like a hint of apricot.

Hi! My two favorite black raspberries are "Bristol" and "Jewel"; old varieties but taste so good. Bristol makes the best jam! Mrs. G

Thanks everyone, I placed my order at Indiana!

Enjoy the posts! With 15 years of experience buying from Nourse Farms, I highly recommend them to anyone considering anything they sell......enormous success and enjoyment with their plants.

hi, looking for Raspberry plants to grow in Dallas, TX and wish to try red, black and yellow colored varieties.

Appreciate if anyone can help with suggesting cultivars and online source to get them. Thanks

I am in Houston which was zone 9 but changed now to zone 8. I studied the raspberry subject in the winter or slightly earlier and found a lot of likes for Baba Berries for the south. I ordered them with my fruit tree order from Bay Laurel Nursery. They have now been received, but since then, I have gone to a fruit gardening talk with one of the beginning heads of Urban Harvest in Houston. I knew he was an important speaker so went and asked about raspberries. You may know him, Bob Randall. He also belongs to the Rare Fruit News newsletter.

He rather chastised me for buying the Bababerries. He said bababerries were prone to some type of disease plus the taste was so so. He grows all these in his yard plus the baba. The following varieties he recommended, Anne and Itsaul. I bought Anne raspberry from Etsy.com ( cheap) and finally found Itsaul at forestfarm.com. It seems that Itsaul blooms/makes raspberries continuously.

Hope this helps, Carol

Thanks Carol for the detailed response