Wild flowers and berries
Last week Chris and I took our dog to one of our cities (Toronto) beautiful parks for a nice long walk outdoors. Our dog had a ball running around in the off leash areas and uhm … rolling in mud! and we had a nice time watching her, talking to another dog owner (who’s dog played with Midnight during our hike) and simply enjoying our surroundings. The trees are only just starting to change color here in Toronto, so I mainly focused on talking pictures of wild flowers as we walked. I came across these flowers that I think look quite bit like my perennial Asters, but I’m really not sure what kind of flowers they are: They’re pretty aren’t they? I also came across a small tree (maybe 10 feet tall?) that had these lovely black berry clusters growing among the leaves. I’ve seen this before but I cannot remember what this tree is called. Any ideas? The rich black berries are solid looking with a shiny outer skin. The berries are probably just a little bigger than your baby finger nail .. maybe the size of your ring fingers nail? The clusters of berries looked very pretty in the tree among the leaves. They’re probably not edible though. I have more pictures from our walk through Taylor creek park on Tricia’s Musings and My World if you’d like to see more flowers and some sumac’s turning red.
Related Reading:
October 5th, 2008 at 7:13 am
Oh wow.. so beautiful flowers! and the blackberries look so delicious! Our entry is now posted, too!
October 5th, 2008 at 10:49 am
You know, along my back fence I get these short little bushy-plants growing up that have almost identical berries – but I don’t know what they are! Those wildflowers are pretty, too. I’ll be checking back to see if anyone can give you an ID.
My post is up, too!
October 5th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
They are lovely little flowers!
October 5th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Maybe a bewildered Aster from a long gone garden? I have no clue what those black berries are, have never seen them over here.
Woot! I finally succeeded to get a GTS post up, after all summer and the trips that have kept me occupied after that. Sorry that it has taken me so long! (A bit of bloggers block too)
Keep your fingers crossed that I manage to get it up every Sunday from now on!
October 5th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Hi Trish! I am sorry to have been gone a long time
I like the berry foto, with them shining like that! Looks ready for picking…
Have a nice week!
October 5th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
If those berries were on short bushes, I’d be tempted to say they are currants. But I’m not a berry expert.
My GTS post is up at min hus.
October 5th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Love your Sunday Green Thumb – Thank you for sharing your garden thoughts with us. I have always thought those pretty purple flowers on your blog today were Wild Aster. I had some growing in my maniucred yard in town and when we moved to the country is was all over the place in the meadow area growing wild. LOVELY!
Happy Autumn!
October 6th, 2008 at 7:49 am
It’s beautiful flowers and it does look like an asters. The berries look like cherries but only smaller. I wonder if there’s such wild cherries!
Mine’s up though it’s late.
October 16th, 2008 at 10:45 am
These purple flowers are one of family of Aster and look realy nice. Aster is one best autumn flowers and they also good for decorating; an aster bucket brings a sense of beauty of early autumn.