Our Viburnums are fun to watch. In the spring and early summer, they produce a profusion of of white flowers in double rows (double files):.

Now, the cores of those flowers are turning to red berries, as you can see in this image taken yesterday:

The berries will mature in the fall into beautiful fall and winter bird food; the green leaves will turn the color of magenta mixed with dark red wine before they meet their destiny. It’s a good way to go:

There are somewhere between 150 and 175 species in the Viburnum genus, according to what we’ve read. Our plants are Mariesii Viburnums, named after19th Century English Botanist Charles Maries who is knopwn for his plant collecting in Asia. (For the scientifically oriented: our plants apparently are the tomentosum form of Viburnum plicatum.) They do well in Down East Maine. (Brooklin, Maine)

In the RIght Place: Signs of Fall