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rrencn mulberry, also known as "Beauty Berry," produces handsome clusters of lilac, shading-to-violet, berries along its twigs.
Poison ivy sports white fruits that thrushes in particular find mighty palpable; as a result, the plant sprouts up in all kinds of places. I just found two little, most unwelcome, plants in my wildflower garden.
No doubt a hermit thrush perched in the red maple tree that hangs over the garden I designed for herbaceous native spring wild flowers. Poison ivy is native, but is certainly not wanted there.
Oriental bittersweet is another introduced vine that has become dangerously invasive; it takes over and crowds out our elegant natives.
Unfortunately, birds love them. There is a native bittersweet, celastrus scandens, which is just as handsome. It is rare, however. It is my wish to find a supplier of the native species so I and others can plant it and replace the oriental bittersweet which is causing real problems for many native species.
Of all the native shrubs or small trees with beautiful fruits, I find viburnums the handsomest. Birds like them also but for different reasons. Virginia viburnums come with colorful common names: wild raisin, nannyberry, sheepberry, blackhaw and arrowwood. All are beautiful. Foamy clusters of white flowers in May produce the blue fruits birds like so much. It's good to be an October berry-watcher.
Note: The "memories" column continues with this selection from Oct. 1, 1997.
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