Malus Week

Table apples are falling from the trees, but decorative sorts like our Malus Downii are not yet ripe. Roadside blackberry bushes, both in Schleswig-Holstein and in Saxony-Anhalt, offer delicious snacks while we are out walking and cycling in week 2009/33. We found a couple of abandoned bicycles on a lonely road near Rogätz on the left bank of the Elbe: we wondered if it was the scene of a crime: but the riders had slipped behind a bounteous hedge of berries to cram their mouths with the sweet harvest. Euonymus berries are approaching pink. Our white Hortensia are fading, but coloured varieties are working their way into flower.