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an ink drawing of a branch with leaves

Yew The yew is a tree with rough bark, hard and fast in the earth, supported by its roots, a guardian of flame and a joy upon an estate. Anglo Saxon rune poem From Wikipedia article on the rune Eihwaz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eihwaz I chose to write about the yew for Winter Solstice, standing as it does between the six weeks which I am calling the tide of the berries (Halloween to Yule) and the six weeks of evergreens (Yule to Candlemas), since the yew has both berries and evergreen…

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a drawing of a tree in the middle of a field

Jacob George Strutt (1784-1867) English landscape painter and engraver in the manner of Constable "SYLVA BRITANNICA; or Portraits of Forest Trees distinguished for their Antiquity, Magnitude, or Beauty" (1826) Drawn from Nature and Etched by Jacob George Strutt, London Etched frontispiece and 49 etched plates Etching on India paper. Folio. (20 7/8 x 14 1/4 inches) Copy held by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh's Library. ___ Strutt was a landscape painter and etcher rather than a botanical…

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My studio is sited on the North wall of St. Mary Magdalene Churchyard and (as in so many Churchyards) there are Yew trees a stones throw from my studio. I've been thinking of documenting their quite unusual colours for a couple of years but a little put off by the fact that they are so poisonous! The attractive glossy pink "berries" (aka modified female cones), would not look out of place in a packet of Dolly mixture and might be edible, but for the fact that the single seed within is as…

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