Mutant sloes? Does anyone have any idea what's going on here? I'm pretty sure this is Blackthorn with an unripe sloe or two, but what are the oversized yellowish things?
tiny sloe #photography #art #mastoart #silentsunday #flower #blossom #nature #blackthorn #sloe #white #spring #easter happy easter!
Intensiv weißer #Blütenball
der #Schlehe in der #Morgensonne...
(Nachtrag von letzter Woche,
mittlerweile abgeblüht)
#Frühling #spring #nature
#Blüten #blossom #Natur #blackthorn
Impossibly abundant blossom on this blackthorn bush!
The sheer abundance of cherry and plum tree blossom this year is so spectacular that it was featured on the local TV news last night.
The photos, taken just now on a nearby footpath, are of Prunus Spinosa aka Blackthorn. Hopefully there are enough pollinators around to ensure plenty of sloes (blackthorn fruits) next September.
They taste unbearably bitter but are used to flavour sloe gin, which is delicious.
#blossom #trees #blackthorn #Prunus #foraging
The blackthorn is on full display. A good year for sloes?
#Blackthorn blossom
Blackthorn is one of the earliest trees to produce blossom, flowering in woods and hedgerows with clouds of snow-white petals in March and April. These delicate white flowers, once pollinated, turn into blue-black fruits later in the year – sloes – that are used to make wine, preserves and sloe gin.
Photograph: John Bridges
Blackthorn and Birdsong.
Witch wands.
Fairies.
Shillelagh sticks.
Magic.
Keeper of secrets.
Poison
And healing.
Protector of creatures.
Early for bees.
White starred abundance.
A trickster of trees.
Hedgerow spiking
The still chill breeze.
Exploring a new #wood to me #today. In #flower, in order of encounter, #primrose, #violet, wood #anemone, lesser #celandine, and the underspoken Dog’s Mercury. In fine leaf, biding their time #wild #garlic and ‘lords and ladies’. Coming out of the woods, the joy of #blackthorn in #blossom in the #hedgerow. #Spring is here! And the joy of #hazel #coppice and #oak standards. Proper #traditional #woodland #management. I
Sam Shepard Reinvents Paul Newman's Butch Cassidy in This Gritty Western
#Collider #MovieFeatures #Blackthorn #Westerns #ButchCassidyandtheSundanceKid #SamShepard
The blackthorn (prunus spinosa) shrubs are spectacular this spring. Hope we get some berries this year so that we can make sloe gin in autumn.
