syrinx

I was surprised on this 23rd of October to see a bee very busy on some wild raspberry bushes in Point Pleasant Park and more surprised to see new flowers being produced and new raspberries ripening - I managed to get a few (I had to compete with many birds and they weren't shy about it).

My google search for "Raspberries in October" led to a wonderful poem by Edward Harkness

They're the sweetest,
these late ones,
only a handful left
after last night's frost.. (read more)

but I think the berries I was seeing were the result of a second flowering induced by an extended (warm) fall as the normal flowering time is July. (So far this fall, we have had only one real frost, that a couple of days ago.)