Fall Continues.

11-11-09 SHORT HILLS: There is still a bit of decent color in NJ. We have a bumper crop of holly berries. You have to respect the roses, who are still at work, when so many of their contemporaries are already on winter vacation.


Rose bush product.

Red burning bush and orange-colored black chokeberry in front of English holly with berries. You couldn't see the berries?

Here they are. That quadruple organ on the bottom of the berry can be seen below on the holly flower.

Female holly flower from the spring. That little green dot becomes the red part of the berry. Over the coming winter, the birds will eat most of these berries and poop the seed, with a smidgen of fertilizer, someplace in the yard or neighborhood. We have a dozen or more holly volunteers from this tree's seeds.