I love rowans. There are several big rowans in our garden. They had lots of berries this year, but now hundreds of thrushes are eating all they can before they move south.
These rowans are from a small island in the Gulf of Bothnia:
Either there has been sheep grazing, or someone has cut the lowe branches. Beautiful! We saw them in Midsummer this year. The rowans had already bloomed on the mainland, but out there by the sea they bloom later.
These are our rowans:
The thrushes have eaten all the berries from the top of the bushlike rowans, while the tall tree like rowan still has it's berries left, but for how long?
These rowans are from a small island in the Gulf of Bothnia:
These are our rowans:
I have a rowan in my back garden, too, though I call it a hawthorne. I do love them. Cedar waxwings are the birds that usually come through and eat the berries here in Minnesota.
SvaraRaderaYes, I saw they have many names in English. Sorbus aucuparia is called Rowan, European Rowan, Mountain-ash, or European mountain-ash, says Wikipedia. We're still waiting for the cedar waxwings, I haven't seen any since spring. They come late from the woods and eat what's left. I love them, they are so beautiful!
RaderaThose berries have 5-pointed star on them and old Estonians believed they are full of power. If you carry a small branch/stik of rowan tree in your pocket no harm will come to you. Pick some berries and dry them and then put them on a string and weare like neclase, you will be safe plus they look very nice. Make more than 5 rows and its extra protective.
SvaraRaderaMonika
Thank you! I must go out at once if I want berries this year. Hundreds of thrushes again today.
Radera