Six on Saturday is, as should be obvious, limited to six. Therefore, I omitted a few of the pictures of colorful berries that I took last week. The first of these three of the omissions is likely the most important, but was omitted because its berries are not quite as colorful as they will be as they ripen a bit later. The other two were omitted because they actually justify omission. I mean that they are nothing to brag about. However, I did not want to delete their pictures that they were polite enough to pose for without sharing them here.

7. Callicarpa americana, American beautyberry was one of several gifts from Woodland Gnome of Our Forest Garden. I had never encountered it prior to its arrival, but wanted to grow it for years! These berries will soon ripen to a slightly purplish but bright bubble gum pink. Although I am typically not so keen on such bright color, I find their oddness to be very appealing. There is a white cultivar, and I do typically prefer white, but I want to grow the typical sort that grows wild within its natural range, rather than any cultivar.

8. Viburnum tinus, laurustinus fails to impress me. I realize that it is popular elsewhere, and that I should learn to appreciate it, but nonetheless, its allure somehow escapes me.

9. Cotoneaster pannosus, silver cotoneaster, to me, is even more unimpressive, perhaps because it is a weed locally. Berries are not colorful for long before turkeys destroy them. What is worse is that turkeys do not seem to eat the berries. They just shake them off the stems, and just leave them to decay on the ground. Berries that manage to ripen are not as vibrant red as firethorn berries, but are a somewhat grungy brownish or orangish red.

This is the link for the original Six on Saturday, for anyone who would like to participate: https://thepropagatorblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/18/six-on-saturday-a-participant-guide/