05 November 2020, The Tablet

Glimpses of Eden


Glimpses of Eden
 

Wild Honeysuckle is famous for clambering up summer hedges and filling the June lanes with yellow flowers and heady scent, but it also has something special to offer in November. The honeysuckle’s wine-gum-red berries have been slowly ripening since summer, but it’s only now, when autumn removes the leaves, that their full glory is revealed. They might be toxic for humans, but almost everything else wolfs them down: squirrels, voles, thrushes, blackbirds, robins – virtually anything that can climb or fly.

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