I am interested in the red and black raspberry, I do not have anything on your list - mostly amaryllis seeds/bulbs, daylily, iris, white wisteria...anything for trade or perhaps SASE? just let me know. Karla

I have Cumberland-just bought it this spring and it is growing like mad. I don't think I have a rooted cane but the soft wood is possible if you tell me how :o). let me know if you are still interested.

My jewel black raspberries have finished up blooming, the picture above is essentially the only blooms left. This is my first fruiting year with black raspberries (jewel and mac black) and it is a "baby" crop but enough to get a good taste. I have a lot of berry plants having their first fruiting season (2nd year) and it is really interesting to see how much larger and more robust the primocanes are this year than last year, especially on my raspberries and trailing blackberries. Fruit production on those the new primocanes next year could be 2-3x as much. One other thing Drew51, you'd better have a decent size area for that siskiyou blackberry. I spent some time today tying up the 6ft canes (each 2nd yr siskiyou has 6 canes at 5-6ft) and it is only the beginning of June. They are growing at the same rate as my marions, which produced canes last year at my house up to 20ft. :-)

Marlene: Tip them back at about 4 feet; they are the primocanes. The canes that fruited and that you correctly removed were the floricanes. Because they flored. Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA