A quick video to highlight my favorite shrub for a #permaculture #garden in the Texas Cross Timbers: Blackberry bush (Rubus sp.). Sometimes called dewberry. And, not just any blackberry bush, specifically native wild ones. There are 10 species native to Texas. I often don’t stop to highlight it in my videos. It is super easy to grow, edible, native, and good for pollinators, so I needed to show it some love.
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This is in my relatively new permaculture nursery/ #farm in the Cross Timbers ecoregion of #Texas created by converting my grass lawn into a productive native garden .
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If you’re doing permaculture in the Cross Timbers of Texas then this shrub is probably my top pick to put in your shrub layer it is the common wild blackberry bush you can see the little thorns on there and that makes it undesirable to many people most prefer the thornless variety of blackberries
For their Gardens or Farms I’m trying to encourage people to grow this wild version because if you care about permanence in your permaculture system it’s hard to be more permanent that than this it it propagates super easy on its own um and if you decide you want to
Propagate it on your own it’s it’s very very easy beautiful displays of flowers uh way more hearty with with drought resistance and pest resistance you can see some of the leaves to help you identify they’re not too easy to find in a nursery you kind of have to find them
In the wild but they’re easy to propagate from Simply a cutting so you don’t have to destroy the wild plant that you find