rowans

The rowans are the fruit of the mountain ash, which never are ripe till harvest.

The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836

Farther into the wood a small, tree-lined gully descends the hillside, rowans guarding its entrance.

Country diary: South Uist 2011

The waxwings' rather unusual speciality is supermarket car parks because of the owners' tendency to plant cotoneaster, pyracantha or non-native rowans that are heavy with red berries.

Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk Mark Cocker 2010

A wind was up, rattling the last of the leaves from the rowans.

A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010

Here they found forests of wild fruit: wild pears, plums, apricots, hawthorns, rowans and apples.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Here they found forests of wild fruit: wild pears, plums, apricots, hawthorns, rowans and apples.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Cheeks as bright as rowans are, brighter far than any star

Oh man - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

I'm not sure what long-term effect this will have on the Celtic magic associated with rowans -- I admit to a certain bias that chickadees improve anything.

Lest We Forget jhetley 2007

"We'd crept down through the bracken in the night, " he explained to me, -and hid among the rocks above the river at Glenshiels, under the bracken and the rowans.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

At heart, he was superstitious, and planted many rowans (mountain ashes) around his hut, as a certain defence against necromancy.

The Black Dwarf 2004