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Yard ChatJuly 4, 2007It rained last night. About darn time, too.
HITS and MISSEShit: erodium petraeum
BERRY REPORTThe Juneberry bush I got from Fedco Trees last year had a nice set of berries on it this spring, even though it's only 3' tall. Some sources say juneberries are human-edible. I'll never know. There is not a chance I will ever get a single berry to myself, now that the robins have discovered them. I've got to admit, it's amusing to watch them swallow the juneberries whole. This season also gave a nice crop of berries on the mulberry tree I started from seed (from AngelGrove tree co., I believe) a few years back. The one (repeat one) I got to eat was fairly tasty. The birds must have thought so, too. The pagoda dogwood which I bought one year at the Madison Arboretum native plant sale has a bumper crop of berries. They ripen blue, on bright red stems, which is always pretty when the time comes. The berries are supposed to persist and be decorative for a good long while . . . but somebody forgot to tell that to my neighborhood birds. Why would I bother to put up a bird feeder? My yard is a bird feeder.
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