Harvest Season

Can't see the leaf on #3, but might that be elderberry? They are turning whitish here over the black when ripe & harvested for syrup. Great stuff to cut the time of a cold in half, marketed as Sambucol, tested in Germany.

I love this time of year - such colour and so many berries and fruits. You've taken lots of great photos. I wonder if that squirrel ate all of what he's holding there ? ... lol

Mister Squidge has got enough there to feed himself for a week by the look of it! I MUST get one of those strawberry trees, I think they're wonderful!
Good blog, HW, really nice to see all the different species. Wet here, too, and you're right, it doesn't bode well for a 'good' winter.

Lovely photos, i love seeing all the leaves turning colour, and all the lovely berries on the plants and shrubs..............

Thanks for the view of fall/autumn in your neck of the woods HW, Lovely photo's :~)))

Lovely blog and pic's HW ! :-))

lovely berries i regognised the elder berry though :o)

Thanks everyone!

Lovely blog, HW!!

I find it very interesting seeing what berries grow where you live, HW. Here we have plenty of rose hips on the Dog Rose bushes. The Hawthorns are really laden with berries, so much so that many trees are now shedding them & some of the pathways are becoming slippery with the berries & covered in seeds. I was thinking the other day after passing a stretch of this that I'd never seen a seedling Hawthorn! There are millions of them in this country & the path I'm talking about has thousands of trees all along its length, which must be a couple of miles long. Many of the trees must be more than a century old.
Elderberries are also quite common around here. Now the Blackberries have all finished I can't think of any other wild plants that have berries here. Around town the councils over the years have planted Horse Chestnut trees, 100s back at the beginning of the 60s, many Mountain Ashes were planted many years ago in an older part of the town for the "new" queen I imagine as they are in a part of town where many of the streets have names that make you think of that time.