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is it early for holly berries?

West Midlands, United Kingdom Gb

The massive holly trees by us are full of red berries, is this early?



Dscf0005

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Mine have plenty too.
Mind you they did last year, but when it came to getting some for a christmas wreath the birds had beaten me to it.

7 Oct, 2009

 

No not really, but I bet the birds have already noticed them!!

7 Oct, 2009

 

My golden king has none yet this year so I was hoping September ,when I took this pic, was early:-(

7 Oct, 2009

 

no this is about right really. will probably be all gone by christmas. :o(

7 Oct, 2009

 

My female holly got all out of sinc. this year and didn't flower. I'm putting it down to the fact that two winters ago it had a huge crop of berries and, for some reason, the birds didn't eat them. They were still on the tree the next year and eventually rotted off.

7 Oct, 2009

 

my neighbours is full of berries, mine is the male-- but guess what! in the hedge I've found a young one!-- and its got a berry-- I felt so proud.....

7 Oct, 2009

 

Ah Pamg look after it :)

7 Oct, 2009

 

Mine too are all ripe. Cut branches kept in a cool shady shed last for several weeks. Sometimes we have stuck Cotoneaster berries on to the Holly if it has been lost to the Blackbirds.

7 Oct, 2009

 

Congratulations Pamg on the birth of your berry;-) Thanks all, my golden king, on closer, inspection does have a few (still green) berries but nothing to write home about. There must have been a time when they ripened in December? Global warming? cold summer? Poaannua that's what I call dedication;-) don't they eat your cotoneaster berries, they do mine?

8 Oct, 2009

 

Ot cotoneaster berries vanish rapidly.

8 Oct, 2009

 

ive got berries on my cotoneaster and my holly bush now as yet no birds have been after them

15 Oct, 2009

 

Lucky you, still no berries on mine:-( I had to dig my cotoneaster up this year, It was massive and could no longer be reigned in with pruning, keep finding seedlings though :-)

16 Oct, 2009

How do I say thanks?

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