How To Use Blackthorn In A Sentence
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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.
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One RUC District Inspector was even wielding his blackthorn stick, the official symbol of his authority.
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Shrubs such as hawthorn, field maple, blackthorn, beech, hornbeam and holly make good hedging.
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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.
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Fuchsia, blackthorn, limestone and seashore combine to make this a truly idyllic location, perfect as a weekend retreat or holiday home.
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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
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I walked down to this viewpoint in early April, when clouds of white blackthorn billowed along the hillside.
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The muscular man carried a sturdy blackthorn cudgel in the field when supervising the emergency men.
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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
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So he went to where a single blackthorn limb spired above a briary thicket, rayed with fine spikes.
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There are also the crocus, the missel thrush, the cuckoo, the blackthorn, etc.
George orwell | some thoughts on the common toad « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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I have no blackthorns here, but I have beach plums prunus maritima, that bore me a single plum this year.
A very long post about lots of things
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Blackthorn spreads very easily, especially on chalky pasture land that has been left ungrazed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gone were the blossoms of blackthorns, brambles, sweet roses, violets, and pungent garlics.
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Blackthorn Acacia mellifera and zebrawood Dalbergia melanoxylon dominate in the drier conditions beside Lake Eyasi.
Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
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Also reported were a variety of sticks and other instruments including ashplants, blackthorn sticks, brush handles, pointers, farm implements, drain rods, rubber tyres, fan belts, horse tackle, sliotars and hurleys.
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However, there appear to be lots of hips on the dog-rose, haws on the whitethorn and sloes on the blackthorn.
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Elder and blackthorn bushes offered patches of shade.
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Most sloe gin in the UK is homemade, much of it in English grandmothers 'kitchens, with actual sloe berries the inedibly bitter fruit of the blackthorn, a relative of the plum harvested from among the autumn hedgerows.
Spirits: It's sloe time
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Blackthorne also has given us interesting interpretations of the environs of Hell, Vatican satellites in outer space, martial arts wirework, not to mention goth strippers that morph into flesh-eating demons mid lap dance.
Sinners and Saints (2004)
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Hedgerows are a blaze with the blackthorn blossom, whose subtle creamy shade of white is nicely contrasted with the much more pure brilliant white of the greater stitchworts and mouse ear blooms which are flowering along side these shrubs in many places.
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Even the aid of the "blackthorn" was occasionally invoked as an effective instrument for securing correction or impressing conviction.
The Young Priest's Keepsake
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These neglected spots are overgrown with gorse, brambles, nettles, blackthorn, and mullein, as well as with the bitter spurges, and the stringy inedible bracken.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
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And it has been a fantastic year for fruits, with hawthorns, hollies and blackthorn producing terrific crops of berries.
Plantwatch: Autumn arrives with brilliant colour and a bumper crop of berries
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His tales involve a rogue's gallery of European freebooters with names like John Blackthorne, Ian Dunross, and Tab Thumpchest.
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Sunny glades with blackthorn and sallow are maintained to encourage these insects.
A Guide to Britain's Conservation Heritage
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The immanent blackthorn bloom is pushing inside tiny pink buds.
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Above the white deadnettle, from a branch of flowering blackthorn, almost out of sight, a whitethroat sang.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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Neither am I. ' The man stood up, however, leaning heavily on a thick blackthorn cane, and laboured himself across the room.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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The early golden ‘stars and suns’ of lesser celandine and dandelion are followed by blackthorn blossom, stitchworts, primroses, violets and early purple orchids.
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But once the plant has flowered, the weather then turns cold, a period known as the "blackthorn winter".
Weatherwatch: March's borrowing days
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I spared most of it, because blackthorn makes a magnificent show of snowy blossom when the cold north-east winds blow in late March, known as the blackthorn winter’.
Wildwood
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'Clean grounds of all such rubbish as briars, brambles, blackthorns, and shrubbs' (then more often choking the ground than now), which are to be fagoted as good fuel for baking and brewing.
A Short History of English Agriculture
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Blackthorn blossom foams along the sides of shorn hedgerows but grows unchecked with willow catkins and flowering gorse bushes in neglected thickets which shelter the returned chiffchaff and blackcap.
Country diary: St Dominic, Tamar Valley
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And it doesn't hurt that the drink's name also allows for the employment of a stock joke that turns on the fact that most people hear "slow" rather than "sloe" -- the purplish-red berry of the blackthorn bush that gives the liqueur its flavor.
No Kidding, It's Good
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She struggled through holly thickets, forced through dense stands of winter blackthorn, still shrouded in dead leaf.
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There's a big bush on the side of the track, something thorny - blackthorn?
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The planting included oak, ash, crab apple, field maple, hawthorn, blackthorn, privet and dogwood and down by the ponds two areas of willows were planted.
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Apparently her blackthorn and her holly, her roses and her honeysuckle were scratching the barouche as he drove past.
SANDS OF TIME
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I cut a stout blackthorn to banish ghost and goblin.
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In actual fact he was pretty keen to investigate the blackthorn 's holistic and nutritional potential.
BEHINDLINGS
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Elder and blackthorn bushes offered patches of shade.
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Linnaeus dubbed blackthorn Prunus spinosa because everything about it is prickly, tart, sour and generally stroppy.
Wildwood
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The dark purple berries, fruit of the blackthorn, are best after the first frosts because they break down more easily.
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In the autumn, these insects migrate to members of the prunus family, such as plum and blackthorn, so attacks can be prevented by not planting these or related trees and shrubs near the pond.
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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
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Shrubs such as hawthorn, field maple, blackthorn, beech, hornbeam and holly make good hedging.
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The dark purple berries, fruit of the blackthorn, are best after the first frosts because they break down more easily.
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He turned his arm toward her, pulling the torn cloth from the spot on his bicep that had borne the cut of the blackthorn hours earlier.
Healing the Highlander
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The birds love the dense thickets and scrub and clumps of bushes like blackthorn that grow in the older sites of the park.
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The day was warm, the air sweet with the scent of scythed grass and chopped blackthorn.
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The birds love the dense thickets and scrub and clumps of bushes like blackthorn that grow in the older sites of the park.
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The sloe, which is the blackthorn, comes still earlier and has fewer leaves.
Penelope's Irish Experiences
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Apparently her blackthorn and her holly, her roses and her honeysuckle were scratching the barouche as he drove past.
SANDS OF TIME
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Blackthorn blossom foams along the sides of shorn hedgerows but grows unchecked with willow catkins and flowering gorse bushes in neglected thickets which shelter the returned chiffchaff and blackcap.
Country diary: St Dominic, Tamar Valley
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For out of all the years she had known Lord Blackthorne, he had never acted invidiously.
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A tangle of blackthorn grows in the sheltered "v" and the first scattering of white flowers star its dark uncompromising branches.
Country diary: South Uist
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He took his job very seriously, driving couples from the local public houses with his blackthorn stick.
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And it has been a fantastic year for fruits, with hawthorns, hollies and blackthorn producing terrific crops of berries.
Plantwatch: Autumn arrives with brilliant colour and a bumper crop of berries
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Aggressive planting of hawthorn, pyracantha, creeping juniper, holly, Chinese jujube, roses, blackthorn or prickly ash will help deter criminals.
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Those white margins were ribbons of sloe or blackthorn, bringing brilliance to the rich pasture lands and the promise of late summer bounty if a late frost doesn't prevent the setting of these wild cousins of the damson.
Country diary: East Cheshire Hills
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His father re-emerged with a blackthorn stick, looking ready to do vicious battle; but when he saw his opponent, he began to laugh.
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She struggled through holly thickets, forced through dense stands of winter blackthorn, still shrouded in dead leaf.
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The planting included oak, ash, crab-apple, field maple, hawthorn, blackthorn, privet and dogwood and down by the ponds in River Field two areas of willows were planted.
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However, there appear to be lots of hips on the dog-rose, haws on the whitethorn and sloes on the blackthorn.
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If I had so sweet a place, I would plant brambles, briers, blackthorn, furze, crataegus, every kind of spinous growth, inside my gates, and never let anybody lop them.
Mary Anerley
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Right in front of that Stand was an artificial bullfinch that promised to treat most of the field to a "purler," a deep ditch dug and filled with water, with two towering blackthorn fences on either side of it, as awkward a leap as the most cramped country ever showed; some were complaining of it; it was too severe, it was unfair, it would break the back of very horse sent at it.
Under Two Flags
