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FREE PLANTS creeping raspberries (Pleasant Hill)
36045 MATTHEWS RD near Hwy 58
condition:
new
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Have a hill that you want to stabilize? Area that you want to plant and forget? (first year a little more care). Prickly enough to keep out unwanted visitors? Creeping raspberries are great for that!
Creeping Raspberries have NO fruit (well to my knowledge, or expertise but google says....so it must be true right?), but resemble the raspberry leaf. Stickery little things, that creep along the ground with bronzy, red, and green leaves. I have it in full sun and it's going crazy. Hillside protection would be neat. Rubus pentalobus (calycinoides) has been a boon to many gardeners with difficult part shade to shade sites. Because it is evergreen, it does a fine job of masking awkward slopes. Small, single, rose-like flowers. By late summer and early fall, brilliant orange-red fruits take over as the foliage takes on autumnal tints. As the Latin name implies, the leaves are five-lobed. BRING GLOVES for this one.....
Summer. 4 in. x indefinite.
White flowers
Sun, Part Shade, Shade Zones 7, 8, 9
Would love bulbs of you're thinning!