Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisamaea triphyllum)In a comment on Carol's post about her Beautyberry (Callicarpa), Lisa of Greenbow suggested that we should all post about our autumn berries. Well, Lisa, here's your meme. I'll get things started with the berries in my garden.
Pagoda Dogwood (Cornus alternifolia)
the native Spikenard (Aralia racemosa)
Cornus kousa 'Beni Fuji'
Solomon's Seal (Polyganatum biflorum)
Show me your berries, I'd love to see them.
28 comments:
What a 'berry' good idea to post about our berries. I need to go out and see what I have. Surprisingly, or maybe not, I think all of mine will be different from yours!
Carol, May Dreams Gardens
I have some pics I just took yesterday. I'll try to get on it in a minute. Yours look very ripe and good for the critters.
You have some beautiful berries MrMcD. You have some I am not familiar with. I will have to look up the plants. I also will have to go finish taking some pictures of our berries and get em posted.
I giggle every time I think of you getting after the squirrel in your garden with a yard stick. You would need a longer stick that that to be able to even get close to those wily little rodents. I can just see the squirrel waving his tail at you from a tree limb saying "nah nah nah nah nah".
Lovely berries - they look so rich and velvety
Karen
Lovely berries in your garden MMD. I never get those little blue berries on the Solomon's Seal. I get the dainty little flowers each year & that's that.
You posted a comment to my blog about the fan flowers and you mentioned a flower called Callibrachoas can you show me a picture and tell me what it is? you have me interested if you picked it over the fan for you baskets...
I like this idea too. Maybe this weekend I'll get outside and actually enjoy the garden instead of glowering at it from the window. I like the Smilacina berries too!
What a great idea. My only berries are wound up for the year now, but I promise that I will get that blackberry cobbler made and posted one of these next few days though. What will you use your berries for or are they all only for decoration?
Great idea, MMD! :-) I'm not sure I have much out there, but I check! My Blue Muffin Viburnum had only a couple of berries the last time I checked... hope they're still there (for my photo, of course!) ;-) Both my Pagoda Dogwood and Viburnum were planted last Fall. Is that why there aren't many berries, yet? I so want to make sure the Winter birds are well fed around here! I'd like to plant another "something" this Fall, yet.
Great photos of some very interesting berries. I didn't know Jack in the Pulpit got berries. Does it in the wild also? The Solomon's Seal is such a pretty plant and the berries look like grapes. The Cornus Kousa is a new one to me-but how interesting! Thanks for a berry great show.
Marvelous idea but we're going on vacation so I probably won't get around to participating before we leave. Meanwhile, I have enjoyed visiting here and seeing your berries. I especially like the solomon's seal, beautiful blue.
Made me realise I had no beries. must think about that. Any suggestions for a good berry plant for a balcony?
Love the looks of that Cornus Kousa berry. Is that edible or is it strickly for the birds? No berries at my house so no pictures.
Berries like these are as beautiful as any flowers!
Katarina
A lovely seasonal post. I will have to go berry spotting at the weekend.
Carol - I'd be happy even to see just more shots of those Callicarpas. I love the purple.
Anna - actually, there aren't any Cornus alternifolia berries left. The squirrels cleaned them all off already.
Lisa - you'd be surprised how close one of them comes to me. Of course I never have the camera with me when that happens.
Artist's Garden - the berries really shine now when so many of the shade flowers have gone over.
Perennialgardener - how strange that you don't get fruit on your Solomon's Seal. Do the bees visit it? Is something eating them off before the ripen, or do they just never form?
Lynn - I posted a photo of the container with the purple Callibrachoa as my opening shot for the June 2008 Bloom Day post. I also have them in magenta. Some people call them Million Bells, but that is the name of a seed strain of Callibrachoa. They look like little Petunias.
Jodi - I hope you're well enough to get out & enjoy your beautiful garden.
Cinj - I don't think any of these are edible for humans, but the critters sure enjoy them. Dang, that reminds me that I forgot to post a photo of my Rose Hips. Or are they not considered a berry?
Shady - if you have a lot of squirrels, you many not notice the Dogwood berries before they're gone. The squirrels start chowing down on them before they're even ripe. The birds don't get a chance at any of mine.
Beckie - Jacks in the wild have berries, but the stalk usually collapses, so it isn't always noticeable.
HMH - if you like the Solomon's Seal berries, you should have seen the Caulophyllum thalictroides berries. They're even brighter blue.
Sue Swift - I'm stumped about berries for balconies, unless you could grow one of the tiny Cotoneasters in a container. They're very cute.
Flydragon - I don't know whether Cornus kousa berries are edible. I love them, as they look like mini armillary spheres.
Katarina - the berries of the Spikenard are much showier than its blooms, which are fairly insignificant fluffy white things.
Happy Mouffetard - happy hunting!
I love this post. The berries are wonderful. We like so many of the same wildflowers! But I haven't C kousa...those berries look like sputnik or aralia whose berries look like champagne grapes that Whole Foods sells!
These are lovely, MMD; I'm not sure I have many berries in my garden--I will have to take a stroll...
The Spikenard berries look like clusters of grapes, but that Cornus kousa is really intriguing. It does look like Sputnik, as Gail suggested:)
You just reminded me that I've been wanting to plant some JIPs every fall for the past three years. One of these days...
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Gail - yeah, I can see Sputnik there. I've never tried those Champagne grapes, they do look good, but I've never been tempted to sample the Aralia.
Rose - I hope you find some. I think I'm going to nickname the Spikenard "Sputnik."
Mr. Brown Thumb - if you come to the meetup, I can give you some JIPs, as I was going to divide mine anyway.
You've got quite a collection of berries there. I'm off to see what is hanging around my plants! Good idea.
shirley
MMD - what a great idea -- and your berries are way more interesting than mine, that's for sure. I love the Beni Fuji - it's so delicate. So I took the challenge and found a few berry pictures in the garden and just posted them! They are at: http://sharingnaturesgarden.blogspot.com/2008/09/seeds-and-berries.html#links
Oh, a lovely idea! I'll take some berry shots later today as well. I know I have some pretty red rosehips on my wild rose.
Love your cornus, I've been wishing for one of those for some time now.
Hi, Shirley Bovshow, thanks for visiting! I wish I could claim the credit for this idea, but I sure am enjoying it.
Diana - I'm heading over to take a look now!
Salix Tree - my Cornus kousa is just a baby. Layanee at Ledge & Gardens has a beautiful mature tree. It looks magnificent.
The kousa is pretty cool, MMD - guess a magnolia cone could fit that category from Austin? Berries are developing on a few of my plants, but fall comes later here so I'll hold on to this idea and hope the birds will give them a chance to grow bigger and turn colors.
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
Hi MMD, my berry post is up, just for you! Hope you like it. ;->
Frances
http://fairegarden.wordpress.com/
Annie - Magnolia berries count. I forgot to take a photo of mine, and I think the squirrels have eaten them all now. I'll happily wait for your berries to turn and look forward to a post then.
Frances - I'm berry sure you've come up with something fruitful. (Must stop punning!)
Wonderful selection you have.
Also great photos.
I been missing my garden with working so many strange hours.
I do have some plants that produce berries but haven't looked in a while. Now I will.
Thanks for sharing,
Patsi
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