Packing Up.

6-14-21 SHORT HILLS: Sunday we were back on Waverly Place at North Square Hotel and Restaurant for brunch with Anna, Gardner, Lily and Sam on a cool afternoon. I had been there on Friday for my class lunch with Paul and Roger. Washington Sq. park was jumping. Tomorrow we will go somewhere for dinner before leaving for VT Wednesday, if my car is back from Subaru service.  

We’ve had some showers on and off with maybe a quarter inch of precip. The afternoons have been in the seventies. I have done more pruning and second fertilizing of the house plants and some of the foundation plantings. 

New blooms: winterberry holly, beautyberry, linden tree, rosebay rhododendron.

Linden tree as 'Unter den Linden' in Berlin. It's usually crawling with pollinators.

Beautyberry has small flowers that could be missed, but the fall berries are a vivid purple. We have a volunteer that I just noticed for the first time.

Winterberry Holly is in the same family as the evergreen hollies, and it also makes red berries in the fall. It also has separate male and female plants. These flowers are females, and this shrub has made berries in the past so there is a male plant somewhere in the hood.