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Old 10-06-2013, 10:28 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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On 10/06/2013 10:03, Wendy Tinley wrote:
On 10/06/2013 09:43, stuart noble wrote:
Always amazed at how attractive horizontalis is to bees. Such hard work
for them visiting hundreds of tiny flowers, but I suppose it's a
delicacy for them


Agreed... they absolutely love it don't they... and come Autumn and
Winter the blackbirds enjoy the fruit.

Funny you should say that because here the blackbirds don't touch it!
That said, there's a pyracantha right next to it, which they regularly
strip down to the last berry