Raspberry Clyde Purple

Raspberry ‘Clyde Purple’ – Heritage Variety

Botanical Name: Rubus × neglectus ‘Clyde’

Usually available: Spring to Autumn

Life cycle: Deciduous perennial

Position: Full sun

Soil preference: Moist, well-drained, fertile soil

Size supplied: 125mm Square pot

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‘Clyde Purple’ is a heritage purple raspberry variety developed from a cross between red and black raspberries. This vigorous, productive variety produces attractive, deep purple fruit with a rich, distinctive raspberry flavour. A late-season summer cropper, it fruits on second-year canes, helping to extend the raspberry harvest beyond many traditional summer varieties.

The berries are firm, dark purple and pleasantly tart, making ‘Clyde Purple’ particularly well suited to jams, cooking and preserving, as well as fresh eating. Its vigorous growth and generous crops make it an interesting and rewarding heritage variety for the home gardener.

‘Clyde Purple’ produces long, vigorous canes that benefit from support and training along a trellis or wires. Unlike many traditional red raspberries, purple raspberries can develop long, arching canes with productive lateral branches.

‘Clyde Purple’ is a floricane-fruiting raspberry. After the summer harvest, remove canes that have finished fruiting at ground level, retaining the healthy new season’s canes for the following year's crop. New canes can be tip-pruned during active growth to encourage lateral branching, with further thinning and pruning carried out during winter to maintain a manageable, productive plant.

Grow in full sun in fertile, moist, well-drained soil. Maintain consistent moisture during flowering and fruit development, and provide good airflow around the canes to support healthy growth and fruit production.