1. Blossom on blackthorn and great banks of bluebells.

2. Elder and blackthorn bushes offered patches of shade.

3. The old blackthorn tree, twisted and stunted by its choice of birthplace,(/blackthorn.html) made a convenient leaning post.

4. The immanent blackthorn bloom is pushing inside tiny pink buds.

5. Therefore I made you the wicker lady from blackthorn.

6. Blackthorn is cold, hard, and thorny - it will not be killed, either by fire or frost.

7. She struggled through holly thickets, forced through dense stands of winter blackthorn, still shrouded in dead leaf.

8. Graceful spikes of lords-and-ladies pushed up through the earth below white-blossomed blackthorn.

9. When it comes it is often followed by a spell of cold weather late in March called the Blackthorn Winter.

10. The day was warm, the air sweet with the scent of scythed grass and chopped blackthorn.

11. It may also be noted that last year the true blackthorn overlapped the Myrobalan in flowering season.

12. Her father used often to hunt them in out of the field with his blackthorn stick ....