As you can see in the above photo, the bittersweet are just beginning to reach maturity and I love decorating with the berries!
Several years ago I decorated a basket on our porch with some bittersweet in the fall and the following spring there was a "clump" of bittersweet growing by our garage (presumably the birds transferred the berries to the ground). The clump has grown and is now a mass of vines covering a small tree producing a lot of green berries in the summer, turning yellow in late summer and then to the final stage where the berry opens and reveals a bright orange flesh in the fall!
The bittersweet is quite invasive but a good pair of garden nippers easily controls the growth!
It feels like summer in Northern Michigan today...the temperature rose to 76 degrees...now that is my kind of weather!
Dale Evans
Oh boy, I love bittersweet but sadly the Roshafer (sp?) bugs that come in early summer always eat all of the blossoms, so there are very few berries on our two bushes :(
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