FWIW I probably missed the chance to find these at a farm, but I was up in Lancaster Co. and saw a jar of black raspberry jam at a farmer's market. I figured I'd try it. Indeed one can discern the similarity to the artificial flavor known as blue raspberry. There's definitely a quality not shared with raspberries or blackberries. So that part of the mystery is solved at least. I wonder why I never encountered this flavor before. Do the various hybrid berries like the Marionberries just taste like combinations of the 3 main types (raspberries, black berries, and black raspberries) or do any have a distinctive, 4th note?

Fantastic list of seeds! I think it is just great that you have focused your life on nature at such a young age. I too would love to have 10 (maybe 5) acres someday to plant a wonderland of natives plants, and am already doing that on 1.25 acres. Difference is, my interest didn't come into sharp focus until age 45. :) There are quite a few seeds on this list I am interested in, and I checked your want list and I have a few on that list. Maybe we can do a trade this fall? Just a note - on your want list is Cynanchum louiseae - this is an extremely invasive non-native vine that is becoming a serious problem in the Northeast US. And it has the additional problem that Monarch butterflies will "sense" it is in the Milkweed family, lay eggs on it, and then it will kill the caterpillars because it is toxic to Monarch larvae.

According to Boughen website, ....Good heavy bearer of medium sized sweet red fruit. Well...still don't know what happened, these are the largest of all... after a couple of years of no fruits after freezing down I have some canes now with good size berries, 4 large berries can fill your hand and packed with awesome flavours ..kind of citrus. I've turned around from a miserable dude to a happy camper lol. Now I need to separate/isolate these from others growing between, want to establish away alone somewhere so no others will contaminate.

I looked up her variety first before I commented. If I don't have experience with a plant, I say nothing and move on. I have never had vining or climbing brambles due to living in city on postage stamp sized lots. I have Caroline, a caning red raspberry for 7 years. I have seen firsthand what a happy well prepared raspberry bed will do. It grew out of control and produced quarts of berries per week but obliterated the trellis, a tiki torch and a basement window. As you can see in pix that 2nd window is over 6ft up and the canes reached it until loaded with fruit. 1 cane in ground and 2 in planter on left side of pic grew to 7ft wide and 3-4ft deep thicket in one season. When picking I looked like I fought with a cat. Before the season finished in late Nov, it filled space and started coming up in neighbors yard. I now keep mine barrel contained and get lots of fruit and only occasionally stuck. Good luck