berry bliss... This has been a great summer for our berries. We grow cultivated blueberries and some strawberries, but the majority of our berry picking comes from all of our wild strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries. It is just so cool to think that our family delights on dining on something that we find basically via foraging in our yard.
The raspberries have been heartier than we've ever seen before. You can pick all the bushes clean, and yet like magic, new ripened berries appear the next day. We've had such an abundance that we've even shared some with our chickens. They go crazy for raspberries.
There is a quiet beauty in the stem that is left behind from a plucked berry. It isn't until you've removed the berry that you notice the delicate brown filagree.
I almost completely forgot about the blackberries until I went to pick some lemon balm and noticed the immense clusters of big, bright green berries nearby. I quickly checked around for the other bushes and each are simply ladened with these fruits.
I love nature's timing on how these wild berries grow. Just as the strawberries die back, the raspberries come into full harvest. As the raspberries begin to wane, the wild blackberries turn a deep, dark purple signaling that it is ripe and ready for picking.
All this talk of berries is now making me hungry, so I shall go now for a quick stroll off to the berry bushes. Happy gardening!
4 comments:
You're so lucky to have all those berries. I see pie in your future.
such incredible images.....you are so very talented!
This is my kind of post as I've been enjoying my strawberries and delicious raspberries, and looking forward to the blackberries!
It has been a really good year for them, and I wish that it was like that every year! Flighty xx
I just love your pictures. You really have an eye for beauty!
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