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285/366 Fruity beauty

11 Sunday Oct 2020

Posted by sconzani in autumn, plants

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autumn colour, autumn fruit, berries, seeds

More autumnal fruity beauty today. Can you name the plants?

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271/366 Tooty fruity

27 Sunday Sep 2020

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autumn berries, autumn colour, autumn fruit, berries, fruit, hips

‘Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.’
~ Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, 1912.

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305/365 Autumn decay

01 Friday Nov 2019

Posted by sconzani in autumn, nature, plants

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autumn berries, autumn colour, autumn decay, berries, rotting berries

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‘Autumn wins you best by this, its mute
Appeal to sympathy for its decay.’
~  Robert Browning, Paracelsus, scene 1

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298/365 More good weather for slugs

25 Friday Oct 2019

Posted by sconzani in autumn, molluscs, nature

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autumn weather, berries, fungi, slugs, wet weather

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Wales is once again living up to its reputation for being a wet country, a fact about which I may not be particularly happy but the slugs are once again / still loving it.

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270/365 Clusters of berries

27 Friday Sep 2019

Posted by sconzani in autumn, nature, plants, trees

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autumn berries, autumn colour, berries, black berries, red berries

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‘On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like
clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruit were jewels …’
~  Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

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265/365 Black bryony

22 Sunday Sep 2019

Posted by sconzani in autumn, nature, plants

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autumn colour, autumn fruit, berries, Black bryony, red berries

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Draping and dangling, twisting and tangling, Black bryony’s luscious red berries can be found hanging from fences, winding in hedges, looping over bushes, climbing up trees. One of Autumn’s finest treasures. 

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Christmas baubles

24 Monday Dec 2018

Posted by sconzani in nature, plants, winter

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berries, fruit, hips, Nature's decorations, winter colour

Here are more of the beautiful ‘Christmas decorations’ currently adorning the otherwise-dreary December countryside, courtesy of Ma Nature, and some of these are even edible, by birds and animals if not necessarily by humans.

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Nature’s necklace

18 Thursday Oct 2018

Posted by sconzani in autumn, nature, plants

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autumn colour, berries, Black bryony, fruits, red berries, Tamus communis

At this time of year, Nature adorns her shrubs and bushes with exquisite baubles of bright red berries, in this case the fruits of Black bryony (Tamus communis).

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I see red

16 Sunday Sep 2018

Posted by sconzani in autumn, nature, plants, trees

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autumn colour, berries, fruits, haws, hips, red berries, red fruit, red hips

Hips, haws, fruits and berries … ’tis the season.

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Berries and birds

25 Saturday Nov 2017

Posted by sconzani in autumn, birds, nature, plants

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autumn berries, berries, berries and birds, berry eating birds, birding, birdwatching, Song thrush, thrush

In recent days, on my regular walks, whether in suburban streets or in the local parks and nature reserves, wherever I see berries there are birds, usually thrushes, gobbling down as many berries as they can find.

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A Song thrush found its golden treasure trove in a tiny, but well-planted-for-wildlife garden amongst the apartments of Penarth Marina, and, below, this thrush, at Cosmeston Lakes Country Park, looked to have chosen a berry far too big for its beak but it persevered and, eventually, by applying a little pressure to squash the berry a fraction, down the hatch it went.

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