Today is my last day of work before Christmas break. Perhaps decorations will find their way out of the basement and attic this week and find their way to surfaces all over the inside of the house but even if they don't, mother nature has decked the garden with splendid berry ornaments.
Tropaeolum speciosum
Viburnum somethingorother
Dichroa febrifuga
Pernettya mucronata/Gaultheria mucronata
Mahonia gracilipes
Danae racemosa (Poet's Laurel) is the plant from which laurel crowns were made. Since it's now in my garden, I suppose I could rest on my laurels. Of course, the plant might not take to kindly to that sort of thing.
Cotoneaster franchetii
Callicarpa americana
Phytolacca americana
Euonymus europaeus 'Red Ace'
Pyracantha coccinea
Okay Ma, you've inspired me to drag a few baubles out of their boxes to deck the hall.
All your berries are gorgeous but that first photo is just fabulous.
ReplyDeleteThe Viburnum and Pyracantha are gorgeous. Nothing I am likely to see outdoors here so thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteAnd by "Ma" I suppose you mean mother nature? You have an astonishing variety of berries. The picture of the usually un assuming Cotoneaster franchetii turned out so great: it's rain drops glittering in the background and the yellow bamboo canes that make for a lovely composition.
ReplyDeleteLove those blue berries on the Tropaeolum, very different!
ReplyDeleteFrom here the Callicarpa looks like japonica. Americana has large royal purple berries in whirls around the stems, whilst japonica has smaller lighter purple berries in clusters at the ends of the stems.
Your garden is berry friendly! (sorry, that's the best I could do) Beautiful images and I hope you get in lots of relaxing over your Christmas break!
ReplyDeleteYour berry photos are wonderful, so much going on in your garden. If I had all that, I wouldn't bother at all decorating indoors. Actually, I don't bother decorating indoors anyway. I hope you have a very restful Christmas break, and go back to work energized in the New Year.
ReplyDeleteWhen someone speaks of berries in the garden, I always think of red and orange colors rather than the beautiful range of colors in your garden. As I recall, I liked the flowers on the Tropaeolum but I love those blue berries! I think I need to expand my own berry collection.
ReplyDeleteOh so berry colorful! What a lovely collection you have!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas dear Peter ~ FlowerLady
What a splendid collection of berries. Some I have never even heard of. Now, get off your laurels and get those boxes out so you can deck the halls...
ReplyDeleteA self-decorating garden, I love it. Now to find a house that will do the same. ;)
ReplyDeleteI love all of your berries, berry much! I think we have red, orange, purple and white, but not blue!Or pink!
ReplyDeleteOh wow! So many beautiful berries. You don't need artificial decorations!
ReplyDeleteshucks. my comment from yesterday didn't post.
ReplyDeleteI was impressed with the great of the usually un-assuming Cotoneaster franchetii, which has sparkling rain drops in the background and yellow bamboo canes: I love that composition.
Oh, I am madly jealous of your winter berries. I planted Cranberrybush Viburnum for winter berries, and as I may have mentioned the squirrels eat them all by late September.
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