Green brush filled with bright red-orange berries and vivid pink and white flowers form a mosaic of color along the perimeter of beaches and bogs. The native beach plums are larger than a grape and smaller than a plum and grow wild all over the Cape. Gardeners believe they grow best left untouched with the salt air and sandy soil. The locals make jelly out of its sweet/tart fruit. I often buy the spread as hostess gifts or to bring back to friends outside the area.
My favorite places for this favorite local jelly and other homemade jams: Chatham Jam and Jelly and Briar Lane Jams and Jellies in Wellfleet.
capescape: one woman chronicles a peninsula 