This article appears in print in the July 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. One of my favorite summer sweets is a berry that can’t be bought. You won’t find it for sale in a green carton at the ...

The red is sumptuous, like a queen’s boudoir or a bordello. The texture is soft as velvet ribbon. The plant itself — deep red berries, delicate white flowers and broad fuzzy leaves, is pretty like the ...

We decided to take the long way home, which turned out to be the right choice. The ravine along Chester Creek in Duluth, MN, was cool and shady and a much nicer stroll than the sunny side streets on a ...

Thimbleberry (rubus parviflora) is like one of those charmers-at-first-sight who do not quite keep their promise. It is a cousin of our cultivated raspberries and blackberries, but produces much less ...

Fog surrounds me as I walk with Oscar and Kéet to our favorite thimbleberry spot a mile away. We pass a few straggling thimbleberries. Thimbleberries blossom in Southeast Alaska between May and July, ...

Along the edges of the fields, one of our native shrubs is blooming, beautiful, with its deep pink, rose-like flowers, broad maple-shaped leaves and open, airy growth. The Purple-flowering Raspberry ...

I have good news! It’s thimbleberry season! Well, probably. I mean, it depends on the weather, when this column publishes and the overall temperament of nature itself, but, in theory, thimbleberry ...

LINDEN, Mich. (WJRT) - Kathryn 'Kit' Maloney is always on the lookout for unique items to add to her store in Linden, "Thimbleberry Antiques." "I'm retired. I get up in the morning. I've got something ...