Best blackberry/hybrid berry?

[Stonewaller]

I'd quite like to grow some blackberry type fruits. I'm intending to grow it (them?) up an arch/mini fruit tunnel so there should be no worries about plants getting out of control like the ones planted by a previous owner of my house. Most of them have gone now, and before anyone asks, they produce enormous berries but they have no flavour at all, they're very watery.

So, advice? What would you recommend? I'm hoping to do what Joy Larkcom claims in her creative vegetable gardening book was done at Wisley - 1 "tunnel" 8' high by 4' wide and 4' deep, with a different hybrid berry in each corner. Unfortunately she doesn't have a picture of it.

I've seen that salmonberries have bright pink flowers so they'd look quite ornamental perhaps, but do they taste good?

The people who used to live next to my parents grew Oregon thornless blackberry which came through the fence. The leaves look quite decorative given it'll be in my back garden, again, is the taste worth it?

[Mikey]

Personally my favourite is a Tayberry, a cross between and blackberry and a raspberry, its long and makes great jam. Mine is a buckingham thornless, good heavy cropper.

[sugar]

Tastewise, I would also advise a Tayberry. There are two disadvantages: they are thorny and the harvest season is very condensed (the thornless Buckingham variety is less vigorous).

Japanese Wineberry is also very good, but has also a rather condensed harvest.

For 'true' blackberries, 'Helen' tastes superb, 'Loch Tay' very good but has firmer fruit. 'Triple Crown' tastes good, is very soft but has the advantage of producing fruit over a very long period, much longer then 'Helen' and 'Loch Tay'. It is quite vigorous

My advice: don't stick to one variety. Mix them. But don't grow Boyonberries, I think they are a waste of space.

[Stonewaller]

OK, I'll get a Buckingham thornless tayberry.
I already have a Japanese wineberry growing along a low fence.
I have purchased a Ruben blackberry because it's a primocane and grows more vertically. Hopefully it will taste good.
And also an Olympic Double salmonberry because I thought the double flowers would be more decorative than the single ones. Subsequently it occurred to me that bees don't like double flowers, so possibly I won't get any berries. Does anyone know if this is true?
And I need one more berry for the final corner.

[veggiechicken]

?Loganberry. There are thornless ones.