A couple of years ago, I lasagna planted a tub with a variety of bulbs. Although the plants themselves were pretty, I stupidly put them in an ugly plastic tub so the overall effect wasn't great. They've finished flowering now so I bought a pretty terracotta pot to re-plant them into.
I was just emptying the plastic tub and about halfway down found an egg buried. It's intact and definitely an egg as when I shake it I can hear liquid inside. It's the size and colour of a standard hen's egg.
I have no idea how it got there! My original thought was that it might have been in the bag of compost I used when first planting but I'm sure that a) I would have noticed, especially due to the way I planted the tub with layers of bulbs and compost and b) what are the chances of an egg staying intact after being transported in a bag of compost and then planted?
So it must have been out in after planting but by what? Is there a bird that lays hen sized eggs and buries them? We do get foxes in our garden sometimes...do foxes bury food to come back to? I haven't noticed the pot being disturbed at all and I moved it to the shed over winter and brought back out in spring.
I live with DP and 18 year old DS, neither of whom are interested in gardening and neither of them prone to playing silly pranks like burying eggs! So I really don't think it was anything to do with them
Such a weird mystery for a Sunday afternoon! Here are a couple of pics of the egg in the pot. You might notice a beetle larvae too - these are quite common in our garden and I normally just leave them where I find them or move to the compost bin. Just mentioning in case it's relevant!