WALDO

Meet Waldo, the latest addition to our ever-growing garden family.

 

Waldo

We found Waldo abandoned in the bargain bucket section of one of the many garden centres visited on a regular basis.  All alone on a shelf his faded yellow ticket sticker looking like custard dregs, Waldo had probably lost all hope of ever finding a family to take him in and love him.  That is until we came along…. 

Waldo is a thornless blackberry, an early variety and heavy cropper.  Fast growing and fully hardy, it sounds perfect for an English garden and I’ve just the corner next to the veggie bed that will make an ideal home for a blackberry plant.

The perfect spot for Waldo

 

Thornless blackberry

As Waldo is likely to grow at the rate of knots next springtime, I’ve bought some diamond lattice trellis to screw onto the fence panel which I can then use to tether any unruly branches. 

 

Diamond lattice trellis - so fiddly to paint

Like all my other adopted waifs and strays, Waldo can be sure of getting properly spoilt and in return I hope to have a lovely crop of juicy fat blackberries next year.