Mine are blooming great guns and have little green berries on right now, here in Nebraska. They’re big and juicy enough that I can squeeze the juice out and my husband can have them, as opposed to raspberries which don’t leave much after the seeds are removed - which my husband can’t have because of his ulcerative colitis.
I got one plant for next to nothing because it was almost dead at the farm store here in town. I had no idea what they were but was willing to give them a try. I’m glad I did. If I had a bigger area for the suckers to spread into I’d have tons before long.
That reminds me of an old seed/nursery order house called Gurney's (Yankton, SD). Back in the '70s (when old George Gurney still ran things) they had big, full-color catalogs with all sorts of interesting merchandise. Not only could you buy vegetable and flower seeds, but also nursery items (plants, shrubs, trees, and flowers), copper bracelets, Lawrence Welk records, and live chicks!
They offered a couple of low-priced gardening treats. One was a "Giant Jumble Packet" of mixed vegetable and flower seeds, just for children, and only for a penny. The other was a bargain "grab bag" of seeds and plants. One almost-dead looking plant I got in a grab bag turned into a pretty flower. Things can look like dried twigs in shipment but really take off after being planted and given a little TLC.