That would be good Bookertoo. I always build a 'tree' with things from the garden at Christmas. Some red berries would be great. The holly has already been stripped, it didn't take long, there weren't many.
Who said the birds weren't hungry? With an exceptional show of purple berries on my callicarpa this year, first one blackcap and then all his friends and relatives moved in to strip it inside a week.
My laurel hedge produces berries like those in the picture - the birds obviously drop them all over the place because I have baby laurels all over the garden in the spring. Makes me think that could have happened to produce one in your hedge.
How nice it is that we have so many willing 'assistant' gardeners that grant use free seedlings, either or growing on in more favoured locations, or being left to grow within a diverse hedgeline??? "Good on them", I say. I'm quite willing to share the annual berry feast with them (& their continental cousins)!!
Do other people's cotoneasters have berries one year and fewer the next? Last year mine was laden with berries, hardly any this year despite the good weather. The holly has done much better and the blackbirds have now cleared that of berries.
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That would be good Bookertoo. I always build a 'tree' with things from the garden at Christmas. Some red berries would be great. The holly has already been stripped, it didn't take long, there weren't many.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Let's hope so - though probably over this weekend all the birds will do their Christmas shopping & leave us with no indoor berries!!
In the sticks near Peterborough
Who said the birds weren't hungry? With an exceptional show of purple berries on my callicarpa this year, first one blackcap and then all his friends and relatives moved in to strip it inside a week.
My laurel hedge produces berries like those in the picture - the birds obviously drop them all over the place because I have baby laurels all over the garden in the spring. Makes me think that could have happened to produce one in your hedge.
How nice it is that we have so many willing 'assistant' gardeners that grant use free seedlings, either or growing on in more favoured locations, or being left to grow within a diverse hedgeline??? "Good on them", I say. I'm quite willing to share the annual berry feast with them (& their continental cousins)!!
Do other people's cotoneasters have berries one year and fewer the next? Last year mine was laden with berries, hardly any this year despite the good weather. The holly has done much better and the blackbirds have now cleared that of berries.
I've had a female blackcap devouring my grapes, along with the blackbirds and robin.