The pyracantha at the front of the house has a fine crop of berries,
and they're on the turn.
I got cunning, and put a +10 dioptre macro lens on the front of
the camera (more on that soon). This is lovely for macro work on the
cheap but has one small problem: the depth of field is about a quarter
of an inch, less when one zooms in, and this is a mild challenge for
hand-holding even without a subject that's shaking in a gentle breeze.
Still, it worked: 1/80 sec at f/4, effective ISO 100, and all the
colours are here.
Same exposure on a different part of the bush. I suppose we'll have to
prune it, but it seems an awful shame.
- Posted by Owen Smith at
02:54pm on
30 August 2017
Pyracanthas only flower on last year's new wood. So if you prune the new growth off every autumn (as I have to with mine or it takes over half the garden) you get hardly any flowers next year. It's the price I have to pay for a 30 year old pyocantha which has got too big for the garden.
- Posted by Chris Bell at
05:11pm on
30 August 2017
How interesting. You said this before, but I don't want the bush blocking the paths and completely overshadowing the fish-tank, so I have been clipping it into a square shape over the border it occupies in the hope that this will cause it to do a bit of infilling work. (It has.)
All the flowers and berries this year and last therefore must have grown on old wood. Perhaps we have a different sort of pyracantha.
- Posted by Owen Smith at
11:38pm on
30 August 2017
My pyracantha has orange berries, what colour are yours? I'm aware of at least red and yellow as well.
- Posted by Chris Bell at
11:18am on
31 August 2017
I have no idea how you define red or orange, so I think the best answer here is to refer you to the other blog Roger has put up about it: the colour in the pictures is about right. 09 October 2015, or do a search on "pyracantha"
- Posted by RogerBW at
11:40am on
31 August 2017
Or indeed click on the "pyracantha" tag, between article and comments and in the tag-cloud on the right.
- Posted by Owen Smith at
11:47pm on
31 August 2017
Looking at the Oct 2015 posting yours has red berries, mine are much more orange. So we don't have the same sub species.
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