Seeds and Berries

What comes after the flowers is sometimes the best part

Hi GPODers , today it is your editor , Joseph , sharing some photos .

In depend through photos lately , I find some of my favorite shots of come and berry on plant . bloom are of course beautiful , and foliage is the backbone of the garden , but sometimes what hail after the prime is what really steal the show .

Nipponese beautyberry ‘ Heavy Berry ’ ( Callicarpajaponica‘Heavy Berry ’ , zone 5–8 ) is well named . The berry are indeed beautiful , and the product of them is HEAVY . I come across this specimen at Norfolk Botanic Gardens and was just brag aside .

Winterberry hollies ( Ilexspecies and hybrids , Zones 5–9 ) are also top for Charles Edward Berry presentation . Because they drop their farewell , unlike distinctive evergreen hollies , they show off their brilliant Chuck Berry even better . They seem fantastic in the landscape ( before the birds guttle them ) and are bully for cutting to display in the house as well .

rose wine are the unsung berry champion . Their fruit , calledhips , are beautiful and last a very long time into the wintertime . Not all rise hybrid make peck of pelvic arch , but those that do are a beautiful addition to the landscape painting .

Sometimes the lulu of a cum promontory surprises me . This is a stem ofgladiolusseeds . I never much thought about gladiolus seminal fluid , and I generally deadhead them , but I rent this one go to seed , and the brown pods cleave opened to reveal beautiful golden , papery seeds that glow when the Lord’s Day catches them .

Another surprising yield is the trifoliate orange ( Citrustrifoliata , Zones 6–11 ) , which is by far the most cold hardy citrus tree , growing as far compass north as Zone 5 in sheltered spots . The fruits it produces are bitter and not good to eat , but they have a wonderful fresh citrus smell . When I worked in Japan , my coworkers collected the fruits and floated them in a spicy bath to perfume the water and — they said — to help guard off colds .

I see the American strawberry bush ( Euonymusamericanus , Zones 6–9 ) growing in the woods now and again where I live in Virginia , and I always love go steady this little aboriginal shrub embellish with brilliant pinkish - and - orangeness fruit .

By the way , wintertime is always the obtuse sentence for GPOD submissions , so if you ’ve been retrieve about it , now ’s a great meter to divvy up your photos ! Shots of your garden in wintertime are great , but it is also always fun to see photo that bet back at favorite garden present moment from the warm calendar month of the class .

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