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Wow look at those colours so pretty :D

hehehe i thought it was an old dish ud put out2feed the birds on lol

I,d buy one Spritzhenry for my fairy tree lol

These are commonly called "fairy stool" or "artists conk". They are sometimes dried, varnished and sold as ornament or jewellery. "The off white underside of dried specimens scratches a darker colour underneath, and artists sketch pictures on them. The fungus is then set on edge--where it had been fastened to the tree--to display the drawing. These fetch good prices." From Gene Logsdon's Practical Skills, A Revival of Forgotten Crafts, Techniques, and Traditions. It's a folk tradition in N.A. lol. They tell you where the dead wood is.

Thats one cheeky pigeon you,ve got there ,like your photos of the little birds

What a great blog, I just loved your photos! We've tried really hard this winter to encourage the birds to visit our garden too, but keep most of the food in hanging feeders so as not to encourage too many pigeons. Any food I put on the ground I try and 'hide' round the edges of shrubs; the smaller birds can find it okay but I think pigeons prefer to feed in the open. We get starlings, sparrows, dunnocks and blackbirds by the dozen here, but this year have also managed to attract chaffinch and goldfinch, bluetits and great tits, an occasional coal tit and occasional party of long-tailed tits; always a treat. We've spotted a goldcrest once or twice but our favourite visitor is a male blackcap who we have seen nearly every day since December, hopefully he'll find a lady friend and we'll be the proud 'parents' of baby blackcaps! So, not a bad list for a town garden and our success is making me wonder how I can do more in my garden to make it wild-life friendly.

I should read all the posts before I type!! Glad you had a better day

Poor you Spritz. Not the best of days but I hope yesterday went better and the planting of the new plants went ahead (injury free!!)
As weemama said each day is a gift although sometimes it feels like that gift contained rotten fish even that would be good for your garden over time!
Take heart my friend

A glorious Somerset morning. I used to have to stop on the Levels Spritz to watch the sun do this as I was driving home after nightshift. Thanks for jogging the old memory with this

GREAT color !

. Sorry to hear about your bad day Spritz. My partner is a city fella and death to my plants, he burnt my climbing roses that were to act as a screen by lighting a bonfire too close, let the chickens out and they ate my clematis, even a lovely full bin of black gold - compost was not safe, he used it to fill a hole in our admittedly uneven garden, before siting the new compost bins he made over it LOL Good job I love him!

Good luck with your new Ceanothus I am sure in no time it will be as big as your last one

Watch out for that yellow deadnettle - it will want to cover all of Somerset. If you ever come across a variety called "Herman's Pride", it is MUCH better behaved

Im glad you are feeling better

Hope tomorrow is better for you!

Beautiful picture , I love to see a sunrise , im always grateful for the gift of another day . Hope you have a better day tomorrow x x

Sorry about your ceanothus,but was,nt the sunrise lovely ,better luck with your new Ceanothus .

Wishing you many, many better days Spritz.

What a pretty sky! There's something soothing about watching the sun rise & set, isn't there? The silhouettes of the trees are quite striking!

Had to sign up to respond to this one! I quite like the pigeons, but I went off them when they ganged up with a hen pheasant (! this is suburbia!) to eat my greens! I'm not at all sure if I'll get any purple-sprouting broccoli this year (my first attempt).
Incidentally they make interesting patterns on the windows when they fly into them (pigeons and windows both seem to survive) and it's great now we've got cowls on the chimney pots - no more pigeons down the chimney!
You are SO lucky to get so many long-tailed tits and to get sparrows - we mostly get goldfinches (in an assorted flock of finches) and dunnocks.

Gaps their not gaps you should see my New bed4the cottage seeds/plants ect lol.Only got the Rosemary in yesterday &its looking very LONELY indeed:( Got other plants but little 2early yet2plant

Hurrah Pidge!

Mabey those big fat wood pigeon Sabotaged your ceanothus in revenge after wireing up your bird table I would not put anything passed them lol

I have one that looks like this, bought at local nursery in Hungary. I asked for a red flowering cherry, but when I read the label it said plum, so it is close to the one you have.

wow! i do like this! - defo worth the trip!

Great photos Spritz. Enjoyed seeing them.

This is a lovely example am very envious all mine seem to be singles have loads of babies have had to waste a lot no room.

I think it may be a prunus of some sort, possibly P. cerrasifera (myrobalan or cherry plum) which flowers in early spring

Wow, it seems so early for blossom.

I love this Hellebore didnt no you could get DOUBLES !Its truely lovely :)