'Berry' nice!

That was lovely spritzhenry really enjoyed that tour so much colour.

Loads of lovely colourful berries ,the birds are going to have a feast.

'Berry' good spritz :-)

You have a "berry nice garden" Spritz.......it looks lovely. Thanks for sharing the walk with us........

You're welcome! Amazing what you see when you go and look, isn't it.....:-)

If I were James Bond, I'd prefere your berries to Hally Berry's

really enjoyed the berry nice walk barbara, i like the shiney berberis berries best i think :o)

Lovely collection of Berries you have, it was a berry long ride and my broomstick got caught up on that Berberis

amazing tour but as you emphasise so much on the wak,im now tired,well my legs are,lovely berry tour though,thankyou

I just KNEW I was asking for trouble making that 'joke'!!

Glad you liked them, though....:-)

Sorry you need a sit-down - have a cuppa as well You'll be fine!

Trouble Spritz I thought it was funny, Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you cry alone

berry well done spritz beautiful colours

well i have been pipped to all the good berry jokes. but a lovely blog. lovely photos too.

GROAN!! :-D Thanks.................................xx

That was most enjoyable and informative. I've got
"Photinia davidiana ‘Palette’". Well, I knew it was a photinia but I had no idea which one and now I do - so thank you for that!

Glad to be of help! Isn't it a great shrub! :-))

Wonderful array of colour amongst those berries Spritz. Thanks for sharing and an even bigger thanks from the birds, I bet:0)

Lovely walk Spritz thankyou, it must be great to just sit and watch the birds when they come for the fruit.

I'll bet the birds love you! Food all winter!

Lovely show of berries :)

Fantastic Spritz. You have not only produced a fabulous show of berries but a veritable feast for our feathered friends.

Berry nice blog Spritz.
Heron, i thought that was funny !

Thanks Louise, I thought for a minute no one had spotted it. She must have had an effect on me as when someone says Holly berry I have this image of her walking out of the sea. Lol

just been reading about berrys in AG mag and how to get the seeds by placing them in layers of course sand and leaving over winter to dry the fruit and skin to get the best out of the seeds barbara, learn something every day :o))

I spotted it, Heron! That comment further up ^ was aimed at ALL the berry funny jokes including yours!! lol.

Sandra - I'm not taking the advice - how could I deprive the birds of their winter lunches? lol.

Lovely tour Spritz i would love all those berry born shrubs & bushes will have to get cracking for next year....Lol

lol barbara not even a few for new plants ,, mind you im the same where birds are concerned.

Do you honestly think I have room for new SHRUBS, Sandra? It's a shoe-horn job to get any perennials in!

thank you for the berry walk lovely colours

lol yes i know , wasnt thinking barbara lol

Hi Donna, and thanks! :-))

Anyway, Sandra - don't you think I've got enough berries?? LOL.

You aught to be carful with all of these berry jokes Spritz, you might find yourself 'berry-ed' under the onslaught. Lol
Another lovely tour of your fabulous garden, thank you very much. :~)))

lol barbara :o)
witty ian ;o)

Funny you should say that Ian, But seriously anything with berries on is good as you get a double helping of colour and as a bonus they're good for our feathered friends....well most of them anyway.

Absolutely true, Heron. I almost said "Berry true" there lol.

The blossom is great, the berries wonderful...:-))

I only worry where our Holly is concerned. I'm not sure I could trust her not to try a few!

im sure she wouldnt ian, if you explain to her,, how old is she? they are quick to learn ian really,

I'll PM you San

ok ian ;o))

Beautiful berried shrubs you have. These plants fade into the background in the Summer but wow what an impact they have in the autumn. You'll have lots of smiling birds too.

I do hope so - it's nice to be able to help them to survive!

Very uplifting drupes! Shrubs make such friendly berry-iers, with the birds reseeding volunteers of their favorites all over the neighborhood hedgerows.

Hi Spritz , There is a Holly bush over my fence in the woods. It surprising the difference from year to year how many berries there is. sometimes a few sometimes a lot. Frank

Wonderful . There are so many types of berries around now.

There are - one of the people in the village has a spinney where he grows all kinds of wonderful shrubs and trees. It's amazing walking through there at this time of year! (there's a public footpath through it!)

Frank, you are right - some years are 'good' holly years, some - well, I'd be lucky to find any!

When I lived in the cottage the birds would always eat every berry in my garden but they don't do it here. I'm wondering if the woods around the cottage didn't have as much food for them as do the fields about here. Do you find they eat any of your berries Spritz ? You live in a rural area with fields ..

Hi Spritz, I sent you a PM last night. :~))

Yes, Hywel - all of them by the end of winter! :-))

Berrylicious: I agree Spritz that Viburnum are fantastic plants(Tinus have something of interest all year round)
Another shrub which I think is good in this way is Sarcoccoca Confusa(Probably spelt it wrong) It's evergreen but in the summer it is completely hidden and swamped by my herbaceous perrennials but it doesn't mind not seeing the sunlight for months on end. At the moment it has berries as well as new flowers setting(just like the Viburnum in your pic) And, as a bonus it has a scent (although not particularly strong ) all through the winter. I shall have to remember to post a pic.

Lovely blog and photos!

Thanks, Paul - I was tempted by that very plant last Christmas - drawn to it by the scent! I think from what you've said, I might give in to temptation this year.

Errrr....I think it was a S. confusa....is there another one with an even stronger scent?

Yes - V. tinus is one I wouldn't be without. Did you see that I'm the proud owner of a variegated one? Love it - just love it! lol.

Variegated Virbirnum Tinus?, no didn't see!

The other Sarcoccoca is called Hookeriana I believe. They are particularly impressive plants but give some lovely colour through winter with the shiny green leaves and they amaze me how they grow even though they get no sun in summer because of my other plants!

THAT's what I need for amongst my thuggish Jap. Anemones! I'm clearing them gradually, but they grow so tall and flop over in spite of staking!

I posted a photo of the V. t. 'Variegatum' leaves last night. It got a bit surrounded by taller plants, but it's alive and kicking! Just no flowers yet - but it may do now it has light again.

I enjoyed your berry walk Spritz

Glad to hear it, Pip! :-))

"A berry heart is like a medicine..." Oops, that should be merry, which I am after your lovely tour! Thanks.

LOL. I lke that one!

Me too !!

What a wonderful "Berry Tour"....I really enjoyed that..and you reminded me of a few names I had long since forgotten too!!
My birds do a mighty fine job of stripping my lot - and then "re-seeding" (ahem!) the garden...lovely surprises one gets...no doubt you get them too!!!

Yes, occasionally - always in the wrong places, though. LOL. Oh - and you're welcome, Alz!

Thank you, loved the walk and the talk along the way. I am getting more familiar with plant names as I follow my fellow GOYers love Sue xx

Wonderful selection of berried trees etc really enjoyed the tour, thanks.

What nice things you say! Thank you - it makes it all worth doing! :-) xx

Your very welcome. x

:-)

lovely... Berry nice, in fact!

Hahaha...but thanks!

I still think another island in the sun would look lovely. (Snigger) :~)))

Oh Ian - you are awful - but I like you! (Remember Dick Emery?)

I do and much prefer his era of comedy than most of what they call comedy today. Hope you and P are well?

Yes, thanks. Can't get out - it's POURING!! We have the weekly shop to do so H. will have to wait until this afternoon. It isn't a lot of fun walking across wet and muddy fields in this!

It's miserable here but no rain yet! I never enjoyed walking Duke in that kind of weather either. Mind you he would stick his nose out of the back door and if it got wet he would just turn around and go and lie down again! such a lazy dog he was!

My Golden Girls have just come home from their outing with my (sainted!) dog-walkers...and it was definitely a case of "drip-dry and shake-dry".....we are still in the eye of the storm again today up here. Flooded roads the lot! Makes me almost glad I can't go walk anywhere just now LOL

I should imagine that the 'almost' is the right word Alz.

It has stopped raining here - I'm waiting a while to let things dry out a bit before we venture out, though.

Yes Spritz..."Life Gets Tedious Don't it"!!!! It will be good to throw away the zimmer (ha!) and get back to the pre-breakfast dog-walks! But not today - what a sod....hopefully it will ease up overnight...we have had over 2" rain already and it is still going....horizontally!!

Oh YUK!! Our rain might well be back - so I'd better go - reluctantly!

Sorry Spritz...this was a wonderful blog...I read it on the day but ran out of time to comment. Lovely berries...such variety in one garden.

Why are you sorry, Fluff? Thank you for bothering to return and say nice things! :-)

Congratultions very helpful such good photos

Hallo - where have you been? Thanks for the lovely comment! :-))

Thank you for a lovely blog. We used to get lots of fieldfare and redwing until next door's overhanging cotoneaster tree died so this has made me think again about getting more autumn berries back again. Saw a glorious Cretaegus prunifolia in a local park recently and now your blog has got me thinking again.

Just seen this blog after looking at your good-doers and enjoyed the tour. I too love p. palette I much prefer it to red robin as it always looks lovely but I haven't had any berries :-( also my golden king has let me down this year so I've chopped it to teach it a lesson:-)

Oh - cruelty to dumb plants! Poor holly! I had a 'Red Robin' but it was straggly, and although I pruned it back, it didn't ever look good - so it's gone. I really like 'Palette'. You don't often see it, do you!

I saw it first at an open garden years ago, I think it has a delicacy (is that a word?) Have you put a pic of yours up?