The thornless blackberries in Mary Steffens’ backyard in Echo Park are going on three years, and one of the plants is finally setting fruit -- big, purple-black globes of nearly seedless, sweet-tart ...
You’ll go a long way to find a plant that’s met with the same level of ambivalence as Rubus fruticosus. On one hand, it bears the blackberry, an autumn fruit that arguably more than any other connects ...
The thornless blackberries in Mary Steffens’ backyard in Echo Park are going on three years, and one of the plants is finally setting fruit -- big, purple-black globes of nearly seedless, sweet-tart ...