#bullace

[artsilon]

Procrastinates on my MagArm AMV by making a MagBull AMV instead-

Song is Counting Stars, by OneRepublic!

[heaveninawildflower]

Bullace (circa 1585) by Jacques Le Moyne.

Watercolour and bodycolour.

© The Trustees of the British Museum.

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Tuesday 20 April 2021

Making the hedgerows billow with white blossom is the British native Prunus spinosa (blackthorn, sloe, bullace). This thorny, deciduous tree produces small white flowers followed by bloomy black fruits which are used to produce sloe gin. The next hedgerow plant to be producing clouds of flowers will be Crataegus monogyna (hawthorn).

Jill Raggett

[brownhillsbob]

#365daysofbiking Plum crazy:

August 7th - Spotted in CLayhanger on the way to work, bull aces or wild plums. Slightly larger than cherries, a beautiful, edible old English fruit the slides in and out of fashion as new generations discover it.

Often sent and tasty, these seem to have had a good year., and will soon be ripe.

I’d probably think twice about eating these, though, given the reclaimed nature of the land they grow on...

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[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Friday 3 April 2020

The hedgerows of Essex, UK, are filled with clouds of white flowers from the Prunus spinosa (blackthorn, sloe, bullace). This small, thorny, deciduous tree is often found in field hedges and in the autumn it will be covered in bloomy black fruits which are traditionally used to make sloe gin. Beware of the thorns when you are pruning this plant, these were once used as fishing hooks, known as the ‘sloe-thorn worm’.

Jill Raggett

[psychic-waffles]

🌸 plum blossom 🌸

[iplantsman]

Ripening Red Bullace/Damson. Thought it was a Mirabelle at first, but not convinced now. Either way, they are all Prunus domestica subsp. syriaca or insititia forms, so closely related and much more importantly unless you are a pedant all delicious, beautiful and useful. To my mind worth growing over a plum for fruit volume and certainly better value than something commonly available as fruit in a shop (e.g. Plum ‘Victoria’). Always worth growing fruit you can’t easily buy better than you could ever grow. As with most of Europe, Slovenians always have at least one fruit tree in their gardens for eating, preserving and making into delicious drinks, especially brandy or schnapps. #prunus #plum #gage #damson #bullace #mirabelle #tree #fruit #alcohol #drink #schnapps #brandy #bled #slovenia #plants #plantsofinstagram #landscape #garden #gardensofinstagram #nature #wildlife #selfsufficiency #europe #eating #preserves #jams #distilling (at Bled, Slovenia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0g1B_WgHGU/?igshid=1icl0iurhug3g

[lifegardenheaven]

Growing Langley Bullace Damson Trees

Growing Langley Bullace Damson Trees

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Damsons are considered by many gardeners to be the best example of plums. Langley Bullacei plums are one of the better fruits for canning and cooking. The name seems to indicate big fruits, but in fact Langley Bullace trees produce rather small plums. Nonetheless, the tree is worth growing because of its interesting shape and the tart solid fruits that make excellent preserves.

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