The English Garden

Tree of Life

Our native rowan or mountain ash, , comes into its own at this time of year. A tidy subject for both urban streets and gardens great and small, it is fairly was grown to ward off witches and prevent the dead from rising from their graves. The berries remain in place long after the leaves fall.

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