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plant id please
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... BoyPete writes 'Mike' wrote: "Paul O'Grady" wrote in message o.uk... Please identify this for me. It's very bushy and quite tall. It has a black berry that wood pigeons were eating avidly which is what made me notice it. Thanks. Paul http://www.unusual-gifts.pwp.blueyon...Photo-0015.jpg Mike, I'm an ignorant B. But, ivy with a berry?? Just never seen it. Please educate me. Ta Yes, ivy has flowers and berries, which are a valuable food source for birds in late winter when most of the other berries have gone. Ivy seems to have two growth forms. Firstly it puts out long trailing stems, which is what you see most of the time. Then, when it has come to the top of whatever it is climbing and feels it can go no further, if conditions are right for it, it produces rather more branching stems which are covered in bunches of tiny flowers followed by berries which eventually ripen black. My parents' garden always had masses of ivy berries, so the concept was very familiar to me. But since moving away from home and living in different areas of the country, I've realised that finding ivy with berries is relatively uncommon - especially as most of us are used to ivy growing decoratively in gardens where it's kept in trim, and so is always in its exploratory creeping phase. -- Kay Thank you Kay. That's how I remember it from old rambling gardens/houses Mike -- .................................................. ......... Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association www.rnshipmates.co.uk www.nsrafa.com |
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