You can order them online. Here's an Australian online nursery. Bass Here is a link that might be useful: backyard bananas

After trying to grow gooseberries on a bit of a north-facing slope, I have given up. We chopped off the thorny canes and will now dig out and compost or discard the roots/crowns. I just do not have enough FULL SUN for these. In MA a bit south of NH. I need the space ASAP, but if you'd like any rootstock or established roots, are in good health and can dig up and leave most of my garden soil, and take all responsibility, I have some established (roots, trimmed of this year's canes) gooseberries. NO NAME or variety. Respond privately with your name and phone number and email. I will probably phone you. I want to use the space for raspberries, so this offer is only for the next couple of days. Thanks. BTW, my neighbor up the road, with FULL SUN can get fruit, as did the fellow in LUNENBURG, MA from whom I got the plants. I just have too much shade and so no fruit. The foliage turns a gold & mahogany hue in fall. Birds nest in the VERY THORNY branches. I give up.

Thanks for the replies! I would love to get some seeds please. I did a little research on the net, and now I am really confused. The Cape Goosberry, or ground cherry is listed as a poisonous plant! I had been eating poison for the first 20 years of my life! I even fed them to my kids!http://www.gov.on.ca/OMAFRA/english/crops/facts/91-008.htm is one of the pages I went to. anyhow, I have a little grennhouse which is kept at 10 degrees C all winter, and I intend to start the seeds in there. This winter we will be building a cool greenhouse 16' x 30' and I hope to raise the berries, poisonous or not, in tubs in the greenhouse as well as try them in the garden mulching them in winter. If I can grow a fig tree, even without fruit, in Canada, I figure a few gooseberries should be okay. So Please, yes, I would love to get some seeds. Please let me know what you would like in trade... check out my trade list, but I have never traded to the States before, as I had heard it was virtually impossible for seeds to cross the line, but it is okay for seeds entering Canada. I can send a SASE along with more than enough for postage. many thanks, Chris BTW I am originally from Johannesburg, moved to Hankey, had parents with a little retirement cottage in Jeffreys Bay. I miss South Africa so very, very much, it's plants, traditions, golden beaches, the weather, but I love Canada! Here is a link that might be useful: gooseberries

Nice pics! Thanks for sharing