Ninebark

Brilliant photo Weeds.

Yes I love technology for sure!...this is very pretty ..I like it a lot! whites and pinks and greens...love it..very porcipine-ish...of it. Will check about the salt and soil..must not mind acid..isn't your soil natually acidic?

~we have the Blackthorn tree which has similar flowers but without the pink spots~the fruit are used to make sloe gin!

Pretty photo.

Thanks, all of you.

CJ I got one of those cheapy soil testers and it said it was right in the middle of acid/base up here. Whatever it is, pine and other conifers grow well in this soil so I suspect it might lean a little toward acid.

Arlene, I assumed sloe gin was made from sloe berries from a sloe tree. I had to look up Blackthorn on wikipedia. Plum family. I like plums, guess that's why I used to like sloe gin. Haven't had any for years. Can you make jelly from the berries?

These ninebark flowers don't have dots they have stamens sticking out with red heads or one of those various flower parts. Don't you laugh, I resisted saying flower "stuff!" Haven't studied flower parts since I was in the fifth grade.

~I suppose you can but the birds will fight you for them~I used to go past a bush locally and it was always alive with rustling and chirping~maybe the birds would like sloe gin too!

Ha, bet they would. Someone told me that mountain ash berries will ferment on the tree in the fall sometimes after a hard frost and the birds will get drunk.
I rarely see a cherry pie off my cherry tree, robins and starlings always get there first, I wonder how the orchards manage to salvage any to sell.

~fruit nets and cages I think~plus the odd scarecrow and I have seen some odd scarecrows!

Come to think of it, they used to use "noise" canons to scare them away. I'm sure they got complaints, we could hear them from here and the orchards are miles away. Haven't heard those for years. I don't mind the birds eating the cherries. I suspect I enjoy the birds more than the occasional cherry pie.

I used to sit in my Dad's cherry tree and enjoy the company of the birds eating them along with me...lol..Dad did not appreciate it...lol

Cat - That makes a nice picture in my mind.

Mine too..it is a favorite memory from my days of childhood innocence.