brambles - keep them/trim them/kill them?

[MousyMouse]

just moved to new house with garden.

a stray bramble has made it's way into the flower bed. I really like blackberries so am thinking of keeping a little.

is it a good idea or should I rather get rid of it? I know it's spreading like mad, but it is possible to contain it?

They're not really containable IME - you'd be better off digging up the roots before it gets too much of a foothold. I suppose you could try putting it into a pot and see how it takes to that, but they get all through everything given half a chance.

they are still light green, so relatively fresh.
will dig them out then. pot is a good idea. tbh they scare me a bit, I know they can grow roots at the tip...

You'd probably be better to buy a cultivated variety if you want one in your garden - the wild ones are so variable in growth/taste/size/quality.

What itwillendinsmiles said - get a cultivated variety and keep it in a pot.

Get rid of the wild thing in its entirety! I moved house last Autumn and over the winter cut a bramble down to ground level (literally, barely 1cm above the soil), thinking it would be nice to have our own blackberries in the following autumn. Over the summer it has grown to be a 4 metre x 6 metre monstrosity (surrounded by nettles so I've not been able to prune it as yet) and I now have my work cut out for me this winter napalming reclaiming that part of the garden.

I got rid of it (hopefully), have the scratches to prove it.
I hope I got it all, I cut it down a bit so I had a good bit left to hold on, losened the earth and pulled with all my might landing nicely on my bum
don't want to use weed killer yet as next to a couple of lovely roses.

Remove it. They grow really, really quickly and will kill off everything which grows in your garden if they take hold. You won't get loads of blackberries from just one; one or two if that.