Snowball Viburnum

Snowball Viburnum
Originally uploaded by linfrye

The viburnums are just PACKED with berries this fall! In our trip to Duke Gardens this week, we saw at least a half dozen varieties of viburnums with berries from brilliant red to yellow to purple ....

This viburnum from my own property, has wonderful white blossoms in the spring that look like balls of snow; hence, the common name. This fall, those blossoms have turned into varied-hued red to deep purple berries, and the foliage, those warm, earthen tones I so love.

With all the berries, nuts and seeds around this fall, the birds haven't been too busy around my feeders. Folklore tells us that a fall heavy with fruit and nuts signifies a 'difficult' winter. This year, I can't really tell if that will be true for the weather, but if the economy doesn't improve, it will certainly prove true in that regard! We're getting more and more calls with questions on planting vegetables ...

OH! Before I forget -- we've launched our Arboretum webpage!! And with it, I'll be keeping a blog and taking more photos ... have a look, leave a comment if you'd like ...
www.johnstoncc.edu/arboretum/

Click on 'blog' to read about our trip and see some of the photos, and if you scroll back to 'previous posts' in the blog, there's an article about small scale gardening ... here's the link in case you want to jump right in:

www.johnstoncc.edu/Arboretum/blog/2008/09/default.aspx?pa...