Narrow view

Bare branches encourage the narrow view, inviting the eye to enjoy single flowers and single berries. Our photographic artist caught this wonderful bloom of Jasminum nudifolium glistening in the sunlight the other day:

Week 2019/02 also provides singletons, like these delicate berries of Symphoricarpos x chenaultii. which we grow as cover next to a path:

This coralberry is less fulsome in its production than Symphoricarpos albus, the American snowberry, which is a favourite of municipal garden teams because it keeps out invasive brambles. Snowberry is a common planting in the streets hereabouts and in winter really does look like a flurry of snow falling:

Symphoricarpos Week

When the early morning sun comes out in week 2008/44, and the dew still sparkles on the leaves, sprays of white Symphoricarpos berries are among the most attractive features of a morning walk. And of course, this is the time when Prunus subhirtella 'Autumnalis' builds up a head of steam, with lots of its improbable blossoms scattered on the branches at the diametrically opposite time of year to the "proper" cherries. A mauve-red hybrid of Chrysanthemum indicum is at last coming into flower and I wondering if it will survive the winter.