Hello, I have two trades of two rooted starts of brandywine berry. This is a black raspberry. It is NOT good fresh eating but it is GREAT for making sauce, the best for sauce in my opinion. It is a long twining type berry for loop or weave training on wires. It is a very vigorous grower. I am interested in trading for starts of a good tasting red raspberry. I would also be interested in: Astilbe Ornamental rhubarb Ceanothus (tall shrub types) tiny-flowered pink rose bush rooted start golden hop apricot or yellow flowered digitalis (foxgloves) Other orange or yellow to orange flowered perennial Or interesting foliage perennial Thanks, Lex

hi glenn never got my money back, they said they changed colour because i let them fruit on there first season, i still have a laugh about that, even the rubus research in the uk told them that this was impossible!! treasured plants is seasonal, only trouble is the advertise very late and supply bareroot, so hit and miss if the plants take in time, the golden everest i grow outside fill a row very quickly, has thick sturdy canes sometimes thicker than my fingers, and up to 6ft canes,a summer floricane, doesnt suffer mould ( like fall gold, golden queen, over here, berries are good size ,well formed, double the size of golden queen and bigger than fall gold, taste is good aswell, i grow the anne in my polytunnel for safety ( dont wanna lose her) and find it very very good, but not quite as good as golden everest,and crop a little less, i found noursefarms for the 1st time the other day, amazing plants but think only ship to the u.s. , i also do a bit of experimenting, and have grown an orange raspberry if anyones intrested email me, as i dont know how to post pics on the forum yet, regards stew

I wouldn't give up on them. I've had it hit my blackberries certain years, and while it can be very damaging, the next year growth was free of it and back to normal. I don't know the exact life cycle of these, there is probably (possibly???) an alternate host form on some other plant, similar to cedar apple rust. I would cut out the worst of the diseased canes, give the patch some TLC, and see what happens.

Rust is on the leaves... or was. My research says it affects the plant for the rest of its life.. which means little or no future harvest. I've enjoyed these berries for years so it will be a shame to destroy them.