An early season variety with medium to large dark blue berries with a very good flavour. The bush has an open and upright habit.

A late season popular selection often recommended for home gardeners. The fruits are small and light blue with excellent flavour. Great ornamental value.

Tall, vigorous, upright grower and a standard for judging Rabbiteyes. Large, highly flavoured berries. Mid-late ripening.

Boysenberries are a trailing type of blackberries, that naturally grow horizontally, compared to the erect habit of most blackberries. To grow, boysenberry plants are usually tied to vertical frames or wires to limit their trailing habit. Fruits are sweeter, ripen sooner and are in looser clusters. It is the sweet and piquant taste, and their incredible rich colouration that makes them so enormously versatile. Boysenberries intense colour and flavour make them ideal for jams, preserves and conserves, in dairy desserts, ice creams and yoghurts, as fruit fillings for bakery products and delicious boysenberry drinks. Boysenberries do well in climates with mild winters and warm summers like Nelson, Bay of Plenty and Hawkes Bay. Fruit mid summer.

A mostly spineless commercial selection with outstandingly flavoured large berries.

A stable, mostly spineless selection which crops well. Berry size is medium - large. Slightly earlier fruiting.

Black currants can be used for juice, wine, jelly and jams. The leaves can be dried and used to make herbal teas. Prune into an open vase shape for air flow. When pruning remove branches older than two years old. Majority of fruit is borne on one year old wood, has lighter crop on two year wood.

Very heavy yielding blackcurrant with very large fruit. Late season - fruits about 2 weeks after Magnus (February). Is ripe when 70% of berry is black in colour. Large, vigorous, spreading selection.

This has been the main commercial variety in New Zealand for many years. The extremely hardy plants produce large black fruit that are high in Vitamin C. Upright grower. Mid season, so ripens from late December to February.

Red currants can be used for sauces and jellies when the fruit has just turned red. The berries can be eaten fresh when left to ripen for a few weeks after turning red. Prune into an open vase and prune ends. Remove wood older than three years old.