Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
There are days when some plants simply show off. There’s really no other way to put it and, when you think about it, it’s entirely natural. We all have to peacock about a bit at some time or other in our lives in order to get noticed, catch the eye of someone we fancy, a curve of the eyebrow, a gratuitously expansive gesture designed to show some aspect of us off to its best advantage (I have particularly shapely calves, as anyone who’s had the pleasure of watching me dig a hole could tell you). Today, the ivy foliage is looking its most handsome, luxuriant, green, rimmed in silver frost, berries held proudly aloft and as fine and fat as I can ever remember having seen them. You may read of their calorific equivalence to the Mars bar, though quite what we’re supposed to do with this nugget of information is anyone’s guess – I don’t see myself having to wrestle a chocolate from the blackbird’s beak and, similarly, he’s welcome to the ivy. What’s of more interest is how late into the season these berries are left – emergency survival rations for the birds in harsh winters perhaps, a pre-breeding season boost in milder years. Whatever the motive, it’s all the same to the ivy. Fruit eaten, seed distributed. Job done.
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Hello! I’m Andrew, gardener, blogger, podcaster, and owner of a too-loud laugh, and I’m so pleased you’ve found your way to Gardens, weeds & words. You can read a more in-depth profile of me on the About page, or by clicking the image above.
