Flowers and Berries

I don’t remember what the flowers in the second picture above are called, but their shade of purplish rose-red is one of my favorite colors.  Once upon a time I had double impatiens in approximately the same shade and they were like Best Flowers Ever.  My mother has to keep pulling up and tossing away some of the above plants because they spread like weeds.  The lillies, in the top picture, are something we had in the yard the whole time I was growing up.  Along with some tiger lillies.

Sadie tried a couple of these and seemed to like them.  I ate a whole handful, but most of them were pretty sour, even when they appeared quite ripe.  I was thinking they were thimbleberries, but apparently those are always red.  Turns out they are black raspberries, which I always thought was a silly term people used for blackberries, which are different.  At any rate, they were bearing impressively.

1. The orange flowers in the top picture are daylilies. They look like the original native species. They do indeed spread like weeds. A clump of them will just about double in size every year. Shade will slow them down a bit and some hybrid daylilies are more well-behaved.

   Posted by Lynn S  on  07/03  at  03:39 PM

2. yeah, i was thinking blackberries. the leaves look the same too.

   Posted by sarahk  on  07/03  at  08:45 PM

3. Those raspberries look like the ones that grow in the wild. I try to pick some every summer, they make the BEST black raspberry jelly and pie. They have much more flavor then cultivated raspberries.
   In fact I am going to go pick more tonight. The berries this year are outstanding.

   Posted by  on  07/04  at  07:02 PM

4. from my knowledge, the berries pictured will be black raspberries when they are fully ripe, and black in color, which might explain the sour taste at this point. Just an observation...

   Posted by  on  07/05  at  10:47 PM

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