blackthorn

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• A new hedge of native species such as blackthorn and whitethorn has been planted to screen the walk from the St George's Field car park.
• One RUC District Inspector was even wielding his blackthorn stick, the official symbol of his authority.
• Shrubs such as hawthorn, field maple, blackthorn, beech, hornbeam and holly make good hedging.
• The undulating landscape of lawns, palms, sycamores, blackthorns and acacias was interspersed with gazebos and pseudo-Moorish limestone structures that house the coffee shop and seating areas.
• Fuchsia, blackthorn, limestone and seashore combine to make this a truly idyllic location, perfect as a weekend retreat or holiday home.
• There are still some fat, red berries among the hawthorns, though, and blackthorn bushes have their own blue-black berries known as sloes, which make delicious sloe gin. Plantwatch: Traveller's joy and old man's beard herald Father Christmas
• I walked down to this viewpoint in early April, when clouds of white blackthorn billowed along the hillside.
• The muscular man carried a sturdy blackthorn cudgel in the field when supervising the emergency men.
• I noticed a chimney rising just above the treetops of a spinney of ash, maple, hazel, elder, blackthorn, ivy and bramble, and what was left of a cottage orchard of walnut, greengage and apple. Wildwood
• So he went to where a single blackthorn limb spired above a briary thicket, rayed with fine spikes.