Berries wherever you look and they're just about ready for picking...
From top left corner in a clockwise direction: sea buckthorn, sloes (or similar), elderberries, more sloes, hip (rosehip), haw (hawthorn), yellow rowan, hip, red rowan .
Middle: brambles
The only berry missing this year were the blaeberries (blueberries) which had a very poor crop in our part of NE Scotland.
What, no cotoneaster? Berries on c.wardii look really good this year with me.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking foraging and food...
ReplyDeleteMmm yummy. When we were in Wales in August we was scoffed bilberries while climbing mountains.
ReplyDeleteI love your berry photo collage - gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteVery nice collection of berries. Love all the different colors.
ReplyDeleteThey are so pretty, like jewelled beads
ReplyDeleteBetween the apples, elders, and brambles, this must be a very tasty time of year at your house! The birds must adore those rowan berries and the haws, too. Lovely collage, Janet.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fantastic selection of berries for your wildlife to enjoy. Your collage really was a trip down memory lane for me, Sea buckthorn when walking the dog on the sandunes of NW England. Bramble picking when the children were little and the dog picked the lower ones and ate them and picking blaeberries on the mountains of N.Wales when we lived there for a short time. Not just the wildlife that enjoys what nature provides!
ReplyDeleteNice image and wonderful selection od berries - something I should add more to in my garden. Do have Cotoneaster (small pendulus tree) which I planted next to the bird feeders :-)
ReplyDeleteYour fruit cage should ensure the birds don't feast before you do. Enjoy! Thanks for your comment :-)
I love rowans foliage and berries, I've planted several varieties this year, but I guessI'd have to wait a few years to see berries like yours! The yellow rowan you have, is it sorbus wilmorinii?
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Beautiful berries - such a good year for them (generally) too. There are a ton of sloes near me, and I've already made lots of sloe vodka. Do you have an foraging plans? Wish I had sea buckthorn...
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the generous comments. I hope nobody was under the impression they were all in our garden! We need to do something about that.
ReplyDeleteAlberto, I think the rowan with the yellow berries is called aucuparia "Joseph Rock". It's thought to be chinese in origin.
Kate, you're obviously the person to visit this winter. I tried picking sea buckthorn. But it's really messy (also big thorns)and the berries squash too easily.
love the new sculpture in the garden (from Steptoes) xx crocosmia.
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