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Bush recognition

james.lambjames.lamb Posts: 16
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Spotted this on my dog walk, what is it?

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Sloes on a blackthorn bush - Prunus spinosa ... it's been a brilliant year for them ... perfect for making sloe gin. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Would you like some of mine Dove?
    I have no use for them unless my sister comes over and takes them  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I already have several bottles of aged sloe gin I have to get through, thanks all the same @Fairygirl ... I obviously need to drink more wino

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    The locals here make a drink called Trouspinette in spring, using the tender new shoots of blackthorn (spinette) to flavour red or white wine mixed with eau de vie, sugar and vanilla.  They serve it as an apéro - http://www.equinoxe79.com/la-trouspinette-de-vendee-pines-noires.html 

    Very tasty but not for drivers.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Dovefromabove said:
    I already have several bottles of aged sloe gin I have to get through, thanks all the same @Fairygirl ... I obviously need to drink more wino
     :D 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    @Obelixx, My father in law used to make "troussepinette" and insist on serving it for appéritif. Disgusting stuff. ;)
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited October 2018
    It can certainly be too sweet but some of the ladies at patchwork bring their own versions for apéro when we have our monthly full day meeting.  One uses less sugar but also lemon or orange or grapefruit zest instead of vanilla and that's really good.

    Our farmer neighbour makes red, white and pink Pinauds.  Lethal.  Fortunately we walk there.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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