Michigan woodland plant.... ID please?

[Lesley Cox]

And many people (including yours truly) really like the older, almost dying flowers of red and blue hydrangeas, with their "antique metal" colours, the fresh shades greening and bronzing in an attractive way.

[Paddy Tobin]

Yes, Lesley, it would certainly beat all the rigmarole that goes with usual funerals and burials here, religious involvements etc. Natural is better in my mind - rot away and return to the earth, specifically to the garden I have enjoyed. A good thought.

Paddy

[Lesley Cox]

Well it was really yhe bottle of wine I was thinking about Paddy. But perhaps that's for her marking of your passing, while you go forth to the compost spot chosen?