Richard

Here's some Evergreen Huckleberries (Vaccinium ovatum) that arrived today from One Green World nursery in Oregon.

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pmurphy

Nice find.
I actually had this growing wild in some places in my yard so I moved some of it to my little "native" garden with the other native red huckleberry -vaccinium parvifolium; which is almost impossible to dig up and transplant because it usually grows on rotting logs and seems to need this in order to survive (I buried a chunk of rotten log under it and that seems to work)

Richard

That Red Huckleberry is pretty tempting. I've seen the Evergreen Huckleberry growing wild in coastal areas as far south as Big Sur - that's why I was willing to try it here years ago. I only brought one plant to my new home and bought the other 5 so I could plant out a bed of them. I've only spotted Red Huckleberry in B.C. and Washington State in the Quinault area. Your practice of the rotting log is probably the only tractable way to get the special form of mycorrhizae that some Vacciniums, Rhododendrons, etc. thrive on. It is not available from standard sources, comes in a pint or quart size bottle which is only good for 18 hours after opening, and it's very pricey.

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pmurphy

Around here red huckleberries grow wild in pretty much any park - even those within the city - or any place that has thick tree growth. And if you go to the local mountains it is a very common sight.......makes for a wonderful fresh treat while hiking but watch our for bears

They seem to like the shaded areas and it is not uncommon to see them growing on stumps - even those over 6-8ft in height - but I have noticed that they seem to prefer large cedar stumps/logs.
You hardly ever find them for sale here because they are so common but as I mentioned, they are also very difficult to dig up and/or transplant (even small plants have enormous, thick roots that wind their way through the stumps/logs). And the only time I ever had one come up on its own was a small seedling that came up between the roots of a cedar tree in my backyard (to my knowledge the tree was healthy but perhaps there was something buried). I babied and protected that one for many years before it was big enough to produce fruit.