blackthorn

How To Use blackthorn In A Sentence

• The birds love the dense thickets and scrub and clumps of bushes like blackthorn that grow in the older sites of the park.
• The day was warm, the air sweet with the scent of scythed grass and chopped blackthorn.
• The birds love the dense thickets and scrub and clumps of bushes like blackthorn that grow in the older sites of the park.
• 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
• The dark purple berries, fruit of the blackthorn, are best after the first frosts because they break down more easily.
• Shrubs such as hawthorn, field maple, blackthorn, beech, hornbeam and holly make good hedging.
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• Linnaeus dubbed blackthorn Prunus spinosa because everything about it is prickly, tart, sour and generally stroppy. Wildwood