Edible native plants for your yard. ... Evergreen huckleberry grows in moist to well-drained soils and tolerates full sun to part shade. ... Red elderberry, a similar plant, ...

Evergreen huckleberry (Vaccinium ovatum). Photo courtesy of Richie Steffen for Great Plant Picks Want to bring more birds to your yard? First switch to organic gardening practices because animals ...

Huckleberries are shrubs in the heath family, and are closely related to blueberries and cranberries. There are two main types of huckleberry bushes. Huckleberries in the Gaylussacia group, or ...

Bright red huckleberry bushes dot the hillside. It’s fall and time to pick red huckleberries for making jams and jellies and to store for winter.

While you can buy red huckleberry bushes from some native plant nurseries (try plantasnativa.com in Bellingham), I have found that unless you already have land with a mature native forest, they ...

Always, the berries are captivating—and to some, too red and beautiful to possibly be edible. They hang from green bushes like bright dabs of paint, left for the beasts.brbrBut wait. As unlikely as it ...