Blackthorn (by popular demand)
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- Markus talks about blackthorn - as opposed to hawthorn.
FULL SERIES: bit.ly/TreesPlants
Markus Eichhorn: / markus_eichhorn
Film by James Hennessy
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The heady fragrance of Blackthorn hedges along the canals when they flower around April is intoxicating. Gorgeous.
It's quite pecular that you post these on nottinghamSCIENCE and it feels more like a lore. There's something reminiscent of Tolkien's hobbits in the way Markus tells his stories. Do I have to add that I absolutely love it?
Poor old Forsythia, its one flowing shrub that always makes me smile as we come into spring out of gloomy winter, those bold bright yellow flowers are amazing, maybe it doesn't want to be relegated to being just a hedge ;)
I like this guy, i would not mind seeing him more often.... Brady preety please
"Forsythia makes me angry" Quote of the day.
This guy is great! Love his knowledge. Wish they were longer.
Really enjoy this series on plants, Thank You.
I found this video particularly interesting, well done
My favorite series.
My father bought about 200 Blackthorn plants some 40 years ago, to beef up an old hedgerow. As a hedge it is absolutely impervious to cattle, but what started out as a 3 ft wide hedge has now spread to about 12 ft wide, because the plant sends out suckers every year. Without ploughing the pasture, I am trying to find a method of scratching out the excess plants.
Go to the supermarket, leave the berries for the life
In Welsh, blackthorn is "y ddraenen ddu" (lit. the black thorn) and hawthorn is "y ddraenen wen" (the white thorn).
When I worked as a hedgelayer, I had to be especially careful with blackthorn. Got a thorn under a fingernail once, not very pleasant.
(sucks teeth) That makes me flinch, just thinking about it!
Could you elaborate on the pronunciation of the Welsh names?
hawthorn's called 'whitethorn' in English too (the thorns on blackthorns are particularly nasty, they cause infection more easily than hawthorns do)
You speak Welsh, and you lay hedges. What a random life.
@@naskoBG26 y is like the 'e' in the word 'the' (when 'the' precedes a consonant), dd is pronounced like 'th' in 'then' (as opposed to the completely 'th' sound in 'thin'), u is more like i.
They got this poor guy on a Harry Potter wand wood hunt for some crazy reason.
Great information muchly appreciated
once i had thorn that pierced right into an articulation of my hand, for one month my hand was three time it's normal size cause of the inflammation, i had submerge my hand 3 time a day in antiseptic, was really painful time
i'm very cautious about thorns since then...
A great post: more like it please.
I can confirm that those thorns do puncture bike tyres!
and football's
Fond of natural history, which include the splendid botanic.
Nice job Brady !
YES MORE PLANT VIDEOS!
No mention of blackthorn poisoning???
Hi Markus, probably you already know this, but:
SLÅEN is the name for the tree/bush in Danish.
It is pronounced almost exactly the same way as you pronounced "sloe" - for the berries, I guess. I just find it interesting, since this indicates that maybe it was brought to England by the Danes ? Or is the word "sloe" more like absorbed into English from a local dialect, like from, for instance, Essex ?
Apart from that, I look forward to more very interesting videos from you. Good job.
+peter jensen English is a Germanic language, so the most probable explanation is that both simply evolved from the same root.
We did have a lot of Viking inhabitants on and off for quite a while...
Or maybe the devious Danes stole the secret of the Blackthorn wand from the Celtic druids of yore? More like, I say. Why else would they be coming here if not to steal the blackthorn rods?
What are slows?
Sloes, The fruit of the Blackthorn, long used in making sloe gin, as he explained in the video,
"Sloes" are the fruit of the blackthorn.
Well… Now you have to make a step-by-step video on how to make that gin.
Is this something I'd see in Australia? It looks familiar, but then again my plant knowledge is next to nothing.
Maybe you are thinking of the Acacia?
never heared about these slows. must be a very local UK thing, it probarbly has a well-known name in addition to this regional name. but somehow he keeps talking about slows as if anyone else would understand what he is talking about.
Spelled 'sloes' - they're a bit like little hard bitter plums, but sloe gin is excellent. My advice would be to not only add the sloes to the gin but also sugar (about 1/3 the weight of the sloes) then leave for a year to make a really yummy liqueur :)
Quite
You wanna try grabbing hold of a blackthorn to to stop yourself when you're coming down a hill too fast... Yowch! No, you don't wanna do that at all.
Sorry ,Markus, but it is hard to find a straight blackthorn ,For a walking stick, But a great video, and I have subscribed,
Did anyone else's mind go directly the Harry Potter and the Blackthorn Wand?
Classic British humour
This guy is a prime example of the fact that it's down to scientists to save the planet.
We need people who prioritize being amazed by reality and our frail place in it as human beings over greed and short term personal gains.
Had to be first! Cool vid.