Beautyberry

I've seen them eating during the hurricane on a beautyberry in my yard.

Its dense growth also offers valuable nesting cover.

American Beautyberry, which is the Calicarpa americana, draws over 40 bird species, including robins, blue jays, mockingbirds.

towhees, cardinals, thrashers, and many migratory warblers, especially in fall and winter.

Number three, yaupon hollies, Ilex vomitoria.

You know, it's always wonderful to have something in your arrangements or in your home that's unexpected.

Did we talk about Beautyberry on the last one? Yes, yeah.

The ombre acai.

Yeah, the variegated,

yeah.

So that would fall right in here too, except the Beautyberry is, I mean, it will not be long before it's gone.

Because we talked about it being gone before the pumpkins.

But I mean, it's September, and you said

Yeah, calicarpa.

Beautyberry is another great one that grows pretty wide, far and wide in Alabama.

We'll be back.

Welcome back to Plain Living for Alabama and the Gulf Coast with Bill Finch.

Right.

Where the traditional Beautyberry has the clusters on the branch.

It's on the branch.

Yeah.