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Can someone please advise me when is the best time and also the best method of taking cuttings from wild brambles. I want to pot them on and root them.

XX Thank you.

In the Autumn the wild brambles here in the UK produce what I call divers.  The end of every stem produces a paler coloured extention that dives down to earth with remarkable speed.   These can be as long a 3 yards/meters or more.  This then produces roots so by the spring there is another plant.  Or on the case of a big plant as many as 50 plus.  My suggestion would be to put a pot under your selection plant and pin one down.  Perhaps you could taste a few to select the one you like best. 

These divers then need to be copiously removed in future to prevent the beast taking over.  The branbled ability to reproduce itself is awsome indeed.  And the birds will then spread the fruit and seedlings will spring up everywhere.

It is possible to dig one up in the spring already with roots but they are already surprisingly long.  With a loganberry the plant has a lot of fine roots and it is easy to repot but the bramble holds only the ground with an amazing strenght.  The growing tips are quite soft at this stage and it is easy to break them off, but never fear the plant will soon produce another one.

Are you really sure you want one?  I have a glorious one with great flavour and it produces 80 or more fruit to each flower head, but I certainly do not recommend it.  It is almost as feriocious than a caged tiger.  Perpare to do battle.

they are  to send to someone who has none in their area,XX Jeannine