I went back to look at the flowers. They are as pretty as cherry blossoms. This is a wonderful capture with the bold orange something you don't often see. great idea for a picture, Phil.
Beautiful shot. it brings back some memories for me Nick had one in the back yard at his terraced house in York. When Mitsy the schitzy cat died (I was delighted that Freddie the One Eyed whippet and victim of many a vicious uprovoked Mitzy attack outlived her) Nick buried her under the pyrocanthus and the tree proceeded to go into overdrive it took over the whole of the back yard and bloomed and berried like crazy. The cat was just a little bag of bones at the end but they must have been great fertilizer! he had to change her name from Schitzy to Mitsy (two people had owned her and were defeated by her prior to him) because his sister is a schizophrenic and he thought she might get paranoid that he had called the cat after her!! If you stroked her twice you got a cat attached to your hand teeth sunk well in - she really was crazy!
@judithg thanks judith, when it was really bad snowy and icy a couple of winters ago we had a family of mistle thrushes descend onto the bushes and 'empty them of berries' within a couple of days.
@swilde sue, thanks for the kind words, the bushes do look good all year round and are quite low maintenance, they only need a bit of pruning now and then
