David

This fungus was growing from the junction between the pavement and the wall of a house on a side street near Chapel Ash.

Berberis berries now well on the way to ripening. The local spiders must have been very busy the day this picture was taken.

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.