While there are still blooms in my garden, what's catching my eye these days are colorful berries and fruits. Today's vase contains Callicarpa (Beauty Berry) a few oak leaves gathered during a walk in the park, dried lunaria annua and Paulownia tomentosa seed pods and a couple trusses of the weedy Phytolacca americana.
Joining the vase are a couple of pumpkins from one of the boxes of autumn decorations.
Emptying my pockets from a recent walk also produced a few horse chestnuts (conkers) and a couple of bitter oranges from the Poncirus trifoliata 'Flying Dragon' in my parking strip. Perhaps I'll pick up some bright orange Physalis alkekengi from the store to add to the arrangement.
I have missed seeing your wonderful vases and this is a beauty....pun intended. ;0
ReplyDeleteGood to hear from you again, Donna and thanks for the pun!
DeleteA wonderful color scheme. I love it.
ReplyDeleteYour purple and orange arrangement looks wonderful!
ReplyDeleteThe Phytolacca americana berries add a nice touch, did you actually plant it? Or are you just letting it stay for awhile? So glad you removed the contents of your pocket before laundering.
ReplyDeleteThe first one was bird planted in the parking strip. They've spread around a bit but are fairly easy to control/kill by cutting them to the ground for a season. Fortunately, there have been no pocket treasure laundering accidents for quite some time.
DeleteThose Callicarpa berries are almost surreal!
ReplyDeleteThey are wonderful and require no care from me at all.
DeleteI love Beautyberries! Great arrangement.
ReplyDeletePeter, the lunaria pods look magical beneath the beauty berries. Wonderful.
ReplyDeleteBeauty berries are one of my very favorites of this season. Those purple berries are so pretty. I will never forget the first time I saw them. I couldn't believe they were real.
ReplyDeletemmmm...purple and orange: one of my all-time favorite combos.
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I have been enjoying my purple beauty berries outside, as well as all the orange berries on cotoneaster and mountain ash. I still have my arrangement from last Monday, but it is looking a bit tired. Maybe I'll take a clue from yours when I replace it.
ReplyDeleteBeautyberry is surprising in that it seems to grow east, west, north and south - a truly versatile plant. It certainly is gorgeous this time of year. Happy week to you!
ReplyDeleteVery cool,love the Pawlonia haven't seen one in years. Orange was a stroke of genius with the Beautyberry.
ReplyDeleteGreat combination, Peter! The Callicarpa berries are always so stunning. I'm hoping mine will grow a little more next year--they're really tiny and no flowers or berries this year. But the foliage is pretty, too.
ReplyDeleteA lovely autumny effect Peter. I have never managed to save any lunaria seedheads as they seem to go brown rather than silver in my garden! And the beautyberries are a bit exotic still for us, although gaining popularity. The paulownia pods are completely new to me though.
ReplyDeleteSuch a lovely combination. I love your callicarpa, mine never fruits as well as this. Do they need lots of moisture? Like you I always come home from a walk with full pockets.
ReplyDeleteOh, conkers in the pocket, lovely! I have seen none this year yet. I love your autumnal arrangement - and watch out for my anniversary challenge, which should be right up your street...
ReplyDeleteOh how pretty Peter and a timely reminder for me to peel my lunaria seedcases :)
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