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| Black Bryony climbing up the fences |
Here are a few snippets of beauty, taken this afternoon in the field beside our house. Bryony is so striking, but as you might have guessed, not nice to eat.
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| Blackberry brambles turning red |
The blackberries were everywhere this year. Millions of them. We made 32 pounds of jam but made not one dent in the numbers.
O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. Psalm 104:24
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| Oaks have such pretty autumn leaves |
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| Clover flowers |
In the olden days, home-makers filled their pillows with clover to make them smell sweet.
New post about pretty touches for the home, and using containers, coming soon.
I've been enjoying your blog for about a month now, and love it.
ReplyDeleteI'm just so envious that you have berries that are so prolific! Our city lot is very shady, having almost no direct sun in any part of it, with soil that is, well, tired. We tried to plant blackberries but had no luck. I long for a good big collection of berry bushes! Enjoy.
Sibyl, USA
Your photographs are gorgeous! The red color on the bryony is quite stunning!
ReplyDeleteSo glad I found your delightful blog!
Blessings! :)
Nice to see you Mara. Thank you - I really like bryony because it's so bright. I took these pictures on a very ancient mobile phone - pointed, clicked and hoped for the best. Most of them were blurry but at least I got four nice ones
DeleteHello Sibyl.Thank you for your encouraging comments. I'm glad you enjoy visiting. We have a lot of shade in our little garden too, and it is very limiting isn't it? On the small sunny side we have one or two raspberry canes which are prolific and a blackcurrant bush which produces fruit so sour and never improves! I'm not an expert by any means, but is it possible to get hold of some Manure from a stables or something? When people I know put manure on their garden it has very good results. In our case, because the garden is so small, we just have a compost bin for kitchen waste and we also collect nettles and make nettle fertiliser. It smells terrible but is very good.
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