As allotment gardeners we enjoy late summer and early autumn as the busiest harvesting time, but lots more food is coming into readiness in our ornamental gardens and parks. Nuts, seeds and berries provide feasts for wildlife and feasts for our eyes.
Sweet Chestnut awaiting the attention of squirrels in Pittville Park in Cheltenham.
Onopordum seed heads against a blue sky in our garden.
Drooping Dieramas.
Black umbellifer seeds.
Crataegus berries and autumn foliage.
A host of Arum Lilies.
Jude “The Undergardener” mystified by an unknown chestnut.
The chestnut had spiky golf balls as nut capsules.
Mad clashing colours on Euonymous europaeus.
Crocosmia Lucifer graceful stems with its ginger coloured seeds.
Let us now have a wander around our garden and spot red berries, and photograph them before the Mistle Thrushes, Redwings and Fieldfares gorge on them.
But unlike Henry Ford we do grow our berries in more than one colour!
White Dogwood.
Two-tone Hypericum.
Musky purple grapes.
This unusual cream berried Cotoneaster always confuses garden visitors. (C. rothchildsiana)
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