It’s a stellar year for bush honeysuckle berries. The stems above were just a small part of the huge display at Wingfield Pines last week.
Can you count the berries?
Birds like to eat honeysuckle fruit so these berries will disappear over the winter.
Too bad this plant is invasive.
(photos by Kate St. John)
I also have noticed the vividly colored Honeysuckle fruit this Fall. Now that a lot of leaves have fallen off the Poison Ivy vines, I have noticed a bumper crop of Poison Ivy berries. Poison Ivy is a native plant and the many species of birds that eat them will spread Poison Ivy far and wide. Every year we have Poison Ivy plants sprout under our suet feeder. The woodpeckers love the suet and then leave the Poison Ivy seed in their droppings.