Author: David

As the berberis berries ripen they turn first from yellow to a pale pinkish purple, then to a rich blue.

I couldn’t decide which of these three pictures I like best.

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.

A bracket fungus. This was a decidedly mature specimen, growing on an abbreviated tree stump.

A plant which prefers wet conditions, growing even in shallow water. These were pictured after heavy overnight rain, and still had a few drops of water hanging down.

Another garden flower which grabbed my attention.

Sometimes called a “Penny Bun”, this mushroom can be found at any time from summer through to early winter.

The large seed case of a cultivated variety, spotted in a front garden.