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Available in a large range of colours and stem lengths together with the ever popular dyed and glittered varieties. Birching featured in the French Revolution. One leader of the revolution, Anne-Josèphe Théroigne de Méricourt, went mad, ending her days in an asylum after a public birching. On 31 May 1793 the Jacobin women seized her, stripped her naked, and flogged her on the bare bottom in the public garden of the Tuileries. [6] of broadleaved woodland in the UK consists of birch, and this figure rises to nearly 50% in Scotland, where the upland birch woods also support rowan, ash, willow, juniper and aspen.Birch twigs inscribed with Ogham symbols were carried on a journey as a form of protection: in fact, the Ogham letter ‘B’ derives from the Irish ‘beth’ or ‘beith’, meaning ‘birch’. I’m quite glad I didn’t live in the Dark Ages, with any need to travel: the weight of accumulated talismans (plus assorted essential crystals) would surely have sealed my doom.
The birch is a tree often associated with death. To dream of pulling the ‘birk sae green’ portends death in the ballad, ‘The Braes o Yarrow’. A wand ‘o bonny birk’ is laid on the breast of the dead in Sweet William’s Ghost. In Somerset, there is a legend where ‘the one with the white hand’ (a birch it is believed) was a spirit haunting Taunton Moorland. Rising up out of the scrub of birch and oak, it drifted up to lonely travellers so fast they could not escape. She was deadly pale and wore clothes rustling like dry dead leaves. With her hand resembling a blasted branch, she would point a finger at your head and send you mad or put her hand on your heart, stopping it dead.
Birch woodland has a light, airy canopy. This proves excellent for wild flowers like Wood anemone, Violets, Bluebell, and Wood sorrel, as well as for mosses. Early dog violet Viola reichenbachiana
Most sources suggest the main problem here is telling your Downy form your Silver birch, other species don’t get a mention! History: Folklore Only if the recipient was a small child could he or she practicably be punished over the knee of the applicant. Otherwise the child would be bent over an object such as a chair. For judicial punishments the recipient could even be tied down if likely to move about too much or attempt to escape. The bark of a mature silver birch is a beautiful milky white with a texture like paper, and it will peel to reveal dark fissures as the tree ages. Younger twigs may be reddish in colour, becoming paler as they develop. The bark of downy birch is greyish brown, and patterned with darker horizontal grooves. Both species have long and slender branches, those of the silver birch tending to droop gracefully while those of the downy birch are carried more upright. Silver birch bark Downy birch provides food and habitat for more than 300 insect species. The leaves attract aphids, providing food for ladybirds and other species further up the food chain. They are also a food plant for the caterpillars of many moths, including the angle-shades, buff tip, pebble hook-tip, and Kentish glory. Birch trees are particularly associated with specific fungi, including fly agaric, woolly milk cap, birch milk cap, birch brittlegill, birch knight, chanterelle and the birch polypore (razor strop).Beith , M (1995) Healing Threads. Traditional medicine of the highlands and islands. Polygon. Edinburgh. white birch forest wall art (horizontal), birch branch decor, birch log, wall hanging, modern rustic wall art, framed birch art It’s not very easy to see twigs in gardens – which is why twig plant supports are so great. But if you peer at this picture, you can just see what I mean by 6″-9″ of wood, and then the bendy, twiggy bits…
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