The last thriving appears to have been getting on for three years ago, at reference 1.
It is true that the configuration of pot plants has changed quite a lot since the picture there was taken, but I cannot think that anything has happened of particular relevance to the health and well-being of jelly lichen. A mystery.
I am fairly sure that it likes the wet so will it be doing better come July if we have lots of rain? Maybe I should make a proper study of reference 2, as all I have been able to get from google so far is that river jelly lichen is an endangered species in this country. With the unhelpful corollary that google coverage appears to be inversely proportional to the likelihood of one's coming across the plant in question.
PS: I am pleased to find that the search term 'jelly lichen extravagant' in google produces reference 1 at hit 5. Pleased but not convinced as google may well know that the PC from which the search came takes a special interest in that particular blog. Must try the same thing from a PC at one of our libraries.
Reference 1: http://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=Extravagant+plants.
Reference 2: http://www.britishlichens.co.uk/pi_jelly.html.
Now been taken down a peg. The same search at Epsom Library got 402 hits of which the first 60 did not include the post in question. Adding 'wings' and 'conduit' to the search term got it down to 7 hits, none of which was the post in question. Searching for the blog by name - pumpkinstrokemarrow - produced no results. I was reduced to typing its URL into the address line. Furthermore, the library version of google search seemed to come with a lot more advertisements than mine does. On the up side, the search did seem to know that a pipe was a sort of conduit.
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