Thanks. Ogham is fascinating, and I love the medieval approach of using the feda to encode knowledge about the world. It's such an incredible tool to build heart-felt, symbolic connection.
We are lucky enough to have a few acres of land surrounded by the wonderful hawthorn, we've let one of the hedges grow out, the others are battered biannually by our neighbours flail trimmers, both thrive. One thing we discovered when trimming a hawthorn (to allow a little light into our orchard) is that the trimmings can root and all of a sudden you find you have become a foster parent to multiple new hawthorn plants! I treat it as one of the three special trees, Oak Ash and Hawthorn.
Beautifully written...
And it also helped a lot with my Ogham studies!!
Thanks. Ogham is fascinating, and I love the medieval approach of using the feda to encode knowledge about the world. It's such an incredible tool to build heart-felt, symbolic connection.
We are lucky enough to have a few acres of land surrounded by the wonderful hawthorn, we've let one of the hedges grow out, the others are battered biannually by our neighbours flail trimmers, both thrive. One thing we discovered when trimming a hawthorn (to allow a little light into our orchard) is that the trimmings can root and all of a sudden you find you have become a foster parent to multiple new hawthorn plants! I treat it as one of the three special trees, Oak Ash and Hawthorn.
Seeing trees root from cuttings is an amazing thing. A friend has a curly willow that started in his garden and is now in countless other places.