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  • From: "Glen Skinner" <glenkskinner@hotmail.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Sparkleberries
  • Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:11:27 -0600

We have a lot of sparkleberries around here (Zone 8b). They fruit consistently every year, but the berries are extremely dry and mealy. I did find one plant that seemed to have better berries this year, so I will be watching it closely.

Glen
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Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 13:52:14 -0500
From: "Doc Lisenby" <longdistshtr@shtc.net>
Subject: [NAFEX] Sparkleberries
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I mentioned several years ago about finding plenty of Sparkleberry
trees/shrubs on my property which although locals recite eating them by the
handful in the forties and fifties, I haven't seen a berry here although
they do bloom. I bought a piece of property seventeen miles WNW of here
and was surprised to find Sparkleberries growing and bearing plenty of
berries in a small patch.
Ironically I live right on the USDA Hardiness Zone line between 7b and 8a.
The producing shrubs are in 7b and the non-producing shrubs are in 8a. I am
doubtful that this is the reason but it is something which defies any
logical explanation I can think of other than herbicide or pesticide use
locally.
Doc Lisenby

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