Pyracantha

08 October 2013

This Pyracantha shrub by the walk to the door was planted years ago by seed from a friend of mine.  It - and another since removed because it had spread too enthusiastically - grew quickly and within a few years gave clusters of these lovely small orange/red berries.  For a number of years they would form and then succumb to a fungal covering.  The past couple seasons they have survived intact (due to my heroic non-interference - sink or swim is sorta my approach to insecticides, fungicides, etc.) providing nice color to the view out the window. The Holy berries are still in the green, or green edging to red stage, and this along with the copious amounts of still green leaves, and the presence of migrating birds that are still summering here before their long journeys - although Hummers' are long gone - still say it's only early fall.