What are these?

[grassfarmer]

The only natual fruit bearing bushes I ever recall seeing around here are Saskatoons and choke cherry...I would think there's others further north.

I'd guess the other way - we have a huge diversity of plants here including many fruit bearing bushes compared to what we had in Alberta. More heat, more warm season grasses and forbs and more fruit and berries - a more forgiving climate perhaps?

[Klause]

5 kinds of edible mushrooms goosberries highbush cranberries currants hazelnuts blueberries wild strawberries crab apples chokecherries saskatoons wild raspberries

Watercress wild turnip sheperds purse.




All grow north of the bush line that's where they are native. Lower elevations more water and protection from elements...


Always joked if the apocalypse happened we could survive in the bush hunting and collecting. Haha.

[WiltonRanch]

Too bad my great grandma died when I was so young. 92 years of poor health got her in the end. Apparently she was a real student of nature. She'd advise grappa when to dehorn, castrate and ween by the moon.

Yeah those highbush cranberries. It's the only spot in this country that has them. I'd like to propagate them at home for the kids. My gardening is a write off so I like stuff like rhubarb which is half wild. Razziea, toons, chokes, pins, grow wild here. The heavy clay makes gardening a challenge.

[farmaholic]

Klause....I'm not sure if I'd starve to death or freeze to death first in the winter down here in the relatively wide open spaces. I'm going to live with Braveheart or Parsely...maybe she has enough preserves to outlast a nuclear armageddon!

[sumdumguy]

At community gardens in Regina near the university(NW corner) there are a row of tall shrubs with leaves like that and lots of cranberries.