Yesterday was a bird day in the garden. Little birds were flitting about and a flock of Robins was eating these berries on my Beautyberry bush. This is its moment in the sun - these gorgeous purple berries on red stems with yellow-green leaves. Its latin name is Callicarpa. Mine seems to be the largest I've ever seen. The variety is Callicarpa dichotoma Early Amethyst. With this year's rain, it is over four feet tall and five feet wide. Obviously the Robins could spot the many berries very easily. So I don't know if I will get to see the yellow foliage with the contrasting Amethyst flowers.
We're at the very end of the Morning Glories. Even though the weather isn't cold, the leaves are dropping and that makes the beautiful blue flowers stand out.
We'll keep the roses until the hard frost comes. They've bloomed until Christmas in my Toronto garden. And if you have Victoria Salvia, Snapdragons, and Alyssum, these will bloom past the first frosts.
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