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I’m so pleased you enjoyed my post! I hope you have a great Saturday 😊👋

I’m so pleased you are enjoying them, Frank! I hope you have a good Saturday 😊👋

Is that the same ivy? Hedera helix? It’s a vital source of late season nectar for pollinators here, and also provides food (and shelter) for birds and other wildlife over winter.

Interesting! The same is often said about common ivy (Helix hedera), but that is also very important for our ecosystem, and I think what is good about it probably outweighs the bad!

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Sounds fascinating! Whenever anyone mentions songbirds and mistletoe in the same sentence, I can’t help thinking of the fact it was sometimes used to make birdlime though. Poor things 😞

Image created from my own original photograph. This is a favourite view from one of my bedroom windows. The ash tree is beautiful all through the year, and the view is particularly wonderful on a frosty morning in winter when the sheep are in the field.

Illustrations used in the collage: Top left is a 1922 illustration by Eugène Damblans of Druids gathering mistletoe from an oak, published in the French weekly news magazine Le Pèlerin. On the right side is a vintage botanical plate of Viscum album by Walther Müller from Köhler’s Medizinal-Pflanzen.

There’s some great Norse mythology, isn’t there! 🤍

‘Tis the silly season 😁🎄🎅

Thank you! I’m pleased you enjoyed my post 🤍

It certainly is! I’m enjoying turning a page each day to see what happens next in the story 😊

The picture I chose to illustrate this post is a detail from the November/December page of an early 20th century Fairbanks Fairy Floral Calendar. The N. K. Fairbanks Company produced Fairy Soap.