Berries Galore!

It is such a lovely time of year, especially when it's a good berry year, as it seems to be now.
We've been eating the haskap (blue honeysuckle) (honeyberry) Lonicera caerulea berries for about three weeks now. They are the first berries to ripen in the garden. Strawberries come next. We haven't had strawberry beds for a couple of years now but they pop up around the garden, survivors from earlier. There are also wild strawberries everywhere amongst our plants and flowers. Some of them have been planted by Jan, others just seem to have arrived. It's fun to forage around the garden trying to find the strawberries before the birds do.
Raspberries have just started to ripen too (see yesterday's blip). The wild ones are only around a short time but the cultivated ones keep producing for a longer time.
There are a lot of bilberries in the forest around our house. They aren't quite ripe yet, but are edible, even if a little sharp just now.  By the time the haskap berries are finished the bilberries will be ready to eat.
 I looked back 2 years to my blip of 9 July 2020, showing my newly planted haskap bushes.  If you compare with the extra here you can see how much they have grown in these two years!