(1) Other than giant forest trees, you'll find abundant barberry, winged Euonymus, Oriental bittersweet, Japanese wineberry , and shrub and vine honeysuckles.(2) Like other brambles in its genus, wineberry forms a clump of arching canes that may reach nine feet in length.(3) East of the School of Forestry is what Peter terms a West Coast garden with rimu, kanuka, mountain beech, coprosma, nikau, wineberry , native fuchsia, pohutukawa, and ferns.(4) Other small fruits include plantings of brambles (three varieties of blackberries, four of raspberries, plus wineberries or ‘Japanese raspberries’), grapes (three varieties), blueberries (nine, each a different variety), and strawberries.(5) Blueberries and wineberries ripen in July and red raspberries are available beginning in August.(6) Look for wineberries in thickets, fields, edges of woods or trails, in moist soil throughout the northeast.(7) I recall finding wineberries growing in damp shade in a small park in northeast Georgia, but never considered growing them here.(8) Picking season begins June 15 with black raspberries first, then blackberries, blueberries and wineberries ripen next.(9) As wineberries ripen, the calyxes spread to reveal the berries within.(10) For an unusual alternative to raspberries, Japanese wineberries are well worth a try.
