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Fresh berry season is here!! #blackberry #blackberries #gyo #texture #freshisbest #gyo #yummy

Yum

Lots of blooms on the blackberries. #edible #fruit #blackberryflower #blackberry #sunset

That means lots of fruit, unless you are short on pollinators..?

Cool pic !!! With sunset as backdrop 😍

Thanks @sherrisgarden weird skies around here all week from Canadian wildfire pollution

Should be a good year!! @emch but the bees are few and far between this year so far, not good

Do you have any bee boxes up? Any plants that attract native pollinators like Culver's Root or Joe Pye Weed?

Oh duh !! Thats right the fires !!! UGH.

Blossoms for days! #blackberries #springblooms2020 #gyo #beefriendly

Wow 🤩

Seems like it's gonna be a good year for the blackberries!! #blackberries #blackberryblosom #inbloom #gyo

Yes they are spreaders, and the birds and squirrels help too!! @gjones

The bees just love em'!! #beefriendly #blackberries #blossoms

Berries sure do get pretty flowers!

They sure do!! @laneygarden

A black eyed susan sneaking in with this bunch. #blackberries #gyo #wildflower #blackeyedsusan

So many berries this season!! #blackberries #gyo #bounty

Beauties.

Drooling. #mouthwatering

Yum!

They look tasty 😋

Thanks all!! @richard.spicer.7906 @seclarke @columbiariver @KariSamuel @joanb @gjones They are delish, and there's plenty more!! C'mon by and pick some for yourself!!!

Grabbing my keys!! 🗝

Thanks @saco , it's a pity I'm on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, enjoy.

Loads of delicious berries everyday now. #blackberries #gyo

Me too yummy 😋

Oh I have been!! Looking at recepies now

Tasty!

Gonna be a good season! #blackberry #blossoms

#blackberry #frozen #macro #winterhasarrived

It was raining. As soon as it touched anything on ground it turned to ice. I've never seen that before, and it's all gone now. Weird New England weather. @gjones

Fresh picked! #gyo #blackberries #bestofjuly

They sure look good!

Yum!

They're pretty good!!

Gorgeous

😘

Berries and flowers. #blackberry #blackeyedsusan #gyo

Very pretty.

Here come the #blackberry

Yum!

👏👏👏👏❤

Similar to raspberry, but with a bit more tartness @gjones

There's gonna be a lot of berries this summer, can't wait!! #blackberry #gyo

That is too bad!! I make wine and a berry jam/spread with all my berries. @gjones

Love to eat blackberries, but in our area they are a nusence growing into huge mounds stretching vines 20 - 30ft long in one season. Finding a small vine in your yard is not a happy experience. So for one month they redeem themselves with their yummy fruit

Wow, thirty foot vines, I had no idea they got so big!! @momasherri

The mound can get to the size of a shed. The vines die in the winter then in the spring they send up new vines over the old so the mound keeps growing

They also send out underground shoots. They are pretty hard to get rid of once established.

Yes they are!! I do battle with them every spring and fall.

A two for one special on these blooms. #blackberry #bees #macro

The bees are loving them and the dames rocket that grows with them. @gjones

Nice! #white

The bees and other bugs were really digging the blossoms yesterday afternoon. #bee #blackberry #macro #white

It's good to see them in large masses, they're not as common as they used to bee @columbiariver

#blackberry #bee #macro

Lovely pic 🤗

They are pretty and last a lot longer then expected at my house. Now mine are at the unripe fruit stage. @gjones

In the early stages of flower development. #blackberry #macro

Brilliant red in #fall on the blackberry leaves

Blackberry in #fall #red