Author: David

An impressive crop of berberis berries beginning to ripen. Today’s posts follow the stages of ripening in a hedge I pass as I go to the shops.

This was growing in a paved-over front garden, so I wasn’t sure whether or not it had been deliberately planted, though the vivid red of the stem, leaves, etc., did rather suggest a cultivated variety.

Some of the flowers had yet to open; others had done so.

I presume the red-brown colour at the end of the individual parts of the flowers is the pollen, bane of hay fever sufferers.

I didn’t notice what the purple flowers in the background were.

Some garden flowers to start today. Fuchsias remind me of the warmer climate of Devon and Cornwall, so they have seemed incongruous this summer.