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<\/a>Amur peppervine<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/its-grown-huge.jpg\")
<\/a>Ours has grown huge<\/p><\/div>\n
Another interesting berry in our garden is the himalayan honeysuckle. This has burgundy, hop like, flowers which then produce berries that ripen to dark brown then almost black. They are edible and are sweet with a slightly chocolate flavour. Again the birds love them and in our garden it is the black birds that make the most of them.<\/p>\n
When I first read that they were edible and tasted of chocolate I decided to give them a try. They do taste vaguely of chocolate and are sweet and juicy but they are so small that they would be very tedious to bother with. Best leave them to the birds. I love this for the late summer colour.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Himalayan honeysuckle<\/p><\/div>\n
We also planted a new plant last year at the edge of the vegetable plot where nothing much ever did well and it was always a dull corner. It didn’t really get going last year but this year it has given us another\u00a0 welcome splash of late colour.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Another late splash of colour<\/p><\/div>\n
It is lovely to see colour in the garden at this time of year when it feels like summer’s end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My mum asked what the plant is, in my last post, with the pretty multi coloured berries. I couldn’t remember as we bought it years ago and we couldn’t even remember where we got it from so I googled it. … Continue reading