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Merton Thornless Blackberry Plants

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  • Self-fertile.
  • Thornless
  • Vigorous, needs support, good for growing along walls / fences
  • Big, sweet and tangy fruit, but sweeter
  • Crops from late July for a few weeks, weather dependant
  • Tolerates poor soil well
  • To 2x2m
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Bareroot soft fruit is generally cut back hard before delivery to encourage strong regrowth from the base.

Pot sizes are measured by their volume in litres, except for the smallest size, 9cm / p9 pots, which are roughly half a litre. P9s benefit from extra care in their first year.

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£ 7.89
£ 7.69
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£11.99each
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10 +
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£ 11.99
£ 10.99
£ 9.99

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Description

Merton Thornless Mid-Season Blackberry Bushes

A must-have mid-season pick if you have space for it, Merton Thornless is also flawless, and the long spine free canes are painless to work with. The fruit retain a lot of the wild bamble kick, but are so much bigger and a fair bit sweeter. 

Browse our blackberry bushes or our full range of soft fruit plants.

Features:

  • Large, intensely flavoured fruit. Heavy cropper.
  • Self-fertile.
  • Thornless
  • Big sprawling plant, needs support, good for growing along walls / fences
  • Crops from late August for a few weeks, weather dependant
  • Tolerates poor or damp soil well
  • To 2 x 2 metres

Growing Merton Thornless Blackberries:

Support will be necessary to keep your plants from becoming a mounded tangle on the ground. Due to its hefty size, a common strategy is "up and over but to me" a wall or fence, with the stems that are too tall for the fence turning back into your garden.

Spacing: 1.8 to 3 metres apart, depending on how you intend to train them on the support: some people go mostly up and down the other side of a support, keep it all quite narrow, and some people train the canes horizontally, which usually gives them more air and light.

Read more on how to grow blackberries.

What to expect

It's Spring Planting Season 2025

Pot grown plants on the nursery

Pot Grown & Plug Plants Delivered

From seedlings in jumbo plugs; Dahlia tubers; small P9 & 1 Litre plants; up to trees in big 15L pots
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We work with large batches of orders to save you money. Lead times for plants in stock are around 2 weeks
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When your order is ready, it's expertly packed by Rodney and delivered by next day courier; if anything goes wrong, call Dan on 01963 359 444
Planting out potted plants in Spring

Spring is perfect planting time

Roots love the warm soil; the plant has time to settle in before mid-Summer heat
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